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...Reading's dingy, red brick Labor Temple had been postponed for a week because the chief organizer broke out with the measles. But now red-haired Ronald Haan, 17, was back on his feet, dressed in his Sunday best, standing nervously in front of a hand-lettered cardboard sign that read: JOIN THE NEWSBOYS ORGANIZATION NOW. In the audience sat some 100 teen-age carrier boys of Reading, Pennsylvania's two dailies, the jointly owned morning Times and the evening Eagle. In the back of the room lounged a few adult labor leaders, who had come to observe...
...free drink of flavored corn syrup. And two hours later the drinkers returned to the trailer. Not that Clevelanders were afflicted with a sudden thirst; on their second visit, instead of getting another shot of syrup, they donated a blood sample. A technician smeared the blood on chemically treated cardboard. In a matter of moments the results were obvious. If the cardboard changed color from grey to blue, sugar from the corn syrup had not returned to normal level in the drinker's blood, showing a distinct possibility of diabetes...
...Cleveland, whenever a cardboard test strip turns blue, a second blood sample is taken for more thorough testing in the Kent-Leonards auto-analyzer at Western Reserve. If this test is also positive, the subject is asked to come in for a third check; if diabetes is still indicated, the subject's doctor is informed by letter, then by a telephone followup. Thus far, the tests have turned up a 4.5% incidence of diabetes among Clevelanders, and Kent and Leonards suspect that the old estimate of approximately 1% for the entire U.S. is far too low. They hope...
...final days, the volunteer organization was expanded. Official sheets of voters' names, supplied by the state, were programmed into computers, and sheets were made listing G.O.P. voters by street, the side of the street, and the house address. "Community Chairmen" handed out cardboard information kits, with detailed maps and names of known Goldwater voters circled in red. The volunteers made at least two complete door-to-door checks on election day to make sure that the voters had gone to the polls...
Dark suspicions arise that the current oversupply of books proving that Everything Is Hollow (or: A Searching Look at the Cardboard Values of Our Aspirin Society) is part of a plot by the sunshine merchants. When everyone is sufficiently depressed, publishers of inspirational texts will find a renewed market for books disproving hollowness on the ground that Everything Is Stuffed with Meaning. Meanwhile, in the hollow or waning-moon part of the cycle, we have had The Waste Makers, The Pyramid Climbers, The Brain Pickers, The Naked Society, and that inevitable-but-yet-unwritten examination of the lunch habits...