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...Housewives are no longer restricted to a small choice of colors. To help them further, Colorizer Associates has begun selling 16 pigments in tubes that can be mixed easily with a base paint. When one tube is added to a can, the color is guaranteed to match a color chart...
...professor of speech at the University of Oklahoma, announced that he had invented a device to enable teachers to tell whether their charges are interested in their work or not. He strings wires generating an electromagnetic field to the backs of classroom chairs, connects them to a special paper chart. When pupils yawn and wiggle, their boredom will promptly show up-as waves and jiggles on the chart...
Broker Forman said he snapped up the steel because he "saw a chance to make a fast buck. There's nothing illegal. Everybody makes a profit, even Uncle Sam. What's everybody screaming about?" When committee counsel asked if he had prepared a ceiling chart for OPS as required by law, Forman answered bluntly: "When they start talking about filling out forms and stuff for a ceiling price, I am not in the steel business...
...explain one of the uses to which the Chart is put, the tape recorder described an hypothetical case: suppose some unfortunate finds he has a low rating on the Chart; he then asks an auditor (Dianetics for psychoanalyst) if things are really that bad. According to the tape recorder, "He (the unfortunate) is asking you (the auditor) to say no, and he'll really keep it up until you say yes, and then he'll spin...
...subject abruptly changed from the Chart to philosophical matters. The United States has a "punishment-drive society," based on a "mere theory which has more Mest than Theta." (Mest, it seems, represents matter in time and space, and Theta represents thought. Most plus Theta equals N-Theta, which in turn has something to do with the formation of engrams, Dianetics for neurosis) "Shut up you little bral that's education," pointed out the tape recorder as an example of the punishment-drive. As a result of this overemphasis on Mest, people do not know themselves; instead, they "give a present...