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Keeping Secrets. Other researchers believe that in an alpha state a sleep-deprived person may become effective again. Defense Department researchers are said to be toying with the idea that captured U.S. intelligence agents trained to turn on alpha could foul up enemy lie detectors and keep military secrets. In industry, major companies like Xerox and Martin Marietta are investigating biofeedback training to spur creative thinking and reduce executive tension; some are already experimenting with one of the dozen brands of portable brain-wave trainers now available for $300 or less...
Moreover, the test fuel will be unleaded gasoline, which unlike the leaded variety widely used today does not foul antipollution equipment; thus the engineering problems of the automakers will be eased. Said Ruckelshaus: The new regulations, together with the deadlines, represent "a challenge to the ingenuity of American industry...
...production, the final arbiter is the director. Michael Kahn (Merry Wives of Windsor) and Edward Payson Call (The Tempest) concentrate on horseplay, swordplay, and foul play, or foot play, arm play, and hand-and-wrist play. But of true drama they seem to have not the remotest inkling...
...pressed for upgrading, but after a production foul-up caused by another man, at least one foreman had threatened to get Johnson fired. Later, when Johnson returned from a vacation, his time card was missing and he was informed by letter that he had been dismissed for taking time off improperly. It was a personnel goof, but Johnson saw a conspiracy building. On the fatal day, he was ordered to unload the ovens, a job generally conceded to be the worst in the plant. He refused and was suspended. An hour later he was back in the plant, ready...
...successful. And all of it is charged by the virtuoso performance of Cliff Gorman, hitherto best known for his role as the swishiest homosexual in both the stage and film versions of The Boys in the Band. Gorman dominates every scene-belting out the bitter monologues, batting back the foul-mouthed wisecracks, delivering dialects, imitations, sound effects-including a tour de force impersonation of a tape recorder on fast rewind. The first-night audience gave him a well-deserved standing ovation. They may also have been applauding for Bruce, whose time has come-belatedly...