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...members: Co-Chairmen Lucy Wilson Benson, president, League of Women Voters, and C. Donald Peterson, associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court; Barry Bingham Sr., chairman, the Louisville Courier Journal; Stimson Bullitt, president, King Broadcasting Company (Seattle); Hodding Carter III, editor, the Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, Miss.); Robert Chandler, editor, the Bulletin (Bend, Ore.); Ithiel de Sola Pool, professor of political science, M.I.T.; Hartford N. Gunn Jr., president, Public Broadcasting System; Richard Harwood, assistant managing editor, the Washington Post; Louis Martin, editor, the Chicago Defender; John B. Oakes, editorial page editor, the New York Times; Paul Reardon, associate justice, Massachusetts...
Even though the Supreme Court had agreed to rule on The Commissioner of Patents v. Gary R. Benson and Arthur C. Tabbott, the case hardly seemed likely to attract more than passing attention. But Plaintiffs Benson and Tabbott, the Government claimed, were not seeking protection for a mere material invention or even for a unique process; what they wanted was to have the U.S. Patent Office register an idea...
...Benson and Tabbott, employees of AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories, had devised a set of mathematical instructions, or a "program," for a computer as part of a telephone switching system. For years AT&T, to which Benson and Tabbott have transferred their patent claims, had been trying to get U.S. patent protection for the computer programs developed by its researchers...
...their most recent experiments, Benson and Wallace studied 36 people who had been meditating from under a month to nine years. I heir results indicate that meditation is both a released and an alert condition. It is different from the states of wakefulness, deep sleep, and dreaming--in other words a fourth state of consciousness...
Wallace and Benson are now researching the effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation with drug abusers. They see meditation's restful, unwinding effect as an effective counter to increasing hypertension and other nervous diseases...