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...boorish, pompous, patronizing and ill-considered remarks of Freshman Robinson should be excused, if not condoned, on the grounds of his patent youth and immaturity...
...dianeties." After this, it was no shock for Hubbard to uncover engrams formed in the womb, the first at the moment of conception. "Most patients . . . sooner or later startle themselves by finding themselves swimming up a channel or waiting to be connected with." Sooner or later, the most phlegmatic patent is bound to be startled; cases are common "with the patient yet unborn discovering himself at his parents' wedding...
...Science Fiction" down to the latest monograph in the October issue; astounding -sounding jargon or the absence from the 450-page book of ay experimental evidence cannot balk them. The appeal of the quick sure-cure is not surprising. Hubbard's claims are as disarming as an old-fashioned patent-medicine label...
Only CBS, which stands to gain up to $150 million in patent license fees, seemed happy last week about the FCC's decision. Although Columbia color is superior to all other video color techniques, present and prospective set owners are alarmed that CBS color won's work over today's standard TV set. More alarmed still are most of the major set producers, who are grimly watching demand for their receivers fall off. But most irate of all are RCA and the National Broadcasting Company, who together have developed another system that can carry color programs in black-and-white...
...National Physician's Committee for the Extension of Medical Care (NPC). Though it describes its activity as a "grass roots crusade," not one individual, physician or otherwise, appears on the required list of donors of more than $500. Instead there are the names of 29 corporations--virtually every large patent medicine and proprietary drug business in the country. Apparently, either the AMA "urged" these firms to contribute, or as Senator James Murray suggests, "Such companies fear a loss of customers when people will go to the doctor instead of a drug store...