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Among technology's dubious gifts to the 20th century is an ever-growing array of devices for snooping: wiretapping refinements, tiny movie cameras, camera film that takes pictures in the dark, microphones so sensitive that they can pick up a whisper through a masonry wall, tape recorders so compact that they will fit into a coat pocket. Long before 1984, the state of affairs depicted by Novelist George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four will be a technological possibility: "You had to live ... in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard . . . every movement scrutinized...
...Slow-Up? How the natural gas industry felt about the ruling became quickly evident at the winter meeting of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission in Oklahoma City. Some oilmen who produce gas merely as a byproduct recklessly threatened to burn their gas rather than submit to federal regulation, since they feared it would open the way to oil price regulation also. Since oil and gas frequently come from the same well, regulating the price of one would affect the price of the other. Others pointed out that recent contracts between gas producers and pipeline customers provided for automatic cancellation...
...Casler's compact little bundle of emotion," "Inhibitions," and 'multicolored organism' are faintly, reminiscent of a Freudian biology text...
...remainder of the program Miss Colish lost her inhibitions and played brilliantly. Five Romanian Folk Dance by Bartok, each a compact little bundle of emotion, received thoughtful, idiomatic performances. I especially liked Pe Loc, whose ceric and exceedingly difficult harmonics have doubtless been the undoing of many a lesser musician...
...third straight monthly cutback, dropping the flow to 2,803,000 barrels a day v. 3,146,920 in August. Since there is an oil surplus, it was a safe bet that the 21 other states in the Interstate Oil Compact Commission would follow suit. Texas, producing 45% of U.S. oil, has dominated the Interstate Oil Commission since it was created by the Governors' Conference in 1935. And Thompson has dominated -the Texas commission, as well as U.S. oil conservation practices, for longer than that...