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...first time since Reconstruction and may possibly claim a gubernatorial victory in Georgia as well. In 13 Southern and border states, the G.O.P. made a record modern-day gain of nine congressional seats. This year, moreover, many of the South's leading Republican candidates were able to discard the Goldwater umbrella and run as bona-fide moderates...
Different critics mean different things by waste. The most obvious definitions are heedless opulence, which, as it were, drops too much from the table, and the readiness to discard the only slightly old. A secondary target is the artificial stimulation of the consumer to buy in vast quantities things he never wanted until he was told. Often such complaints sound highly plausible, particularly when reinforced by a wrecking ball hitting an old landmark or an infuriating commercial peddling a clearly needless "improvement" in some trivial product. Yet waste is not what it seems to be. The term implies a moral...
...technique itself is relatively uncomplicated -- bits of syllables are arbitrarily discarded by a special electromagnetic speech compressor machine. Cramer has found, through extensive experimentation, that the ideal "discard interval" is 14 milliseconds, or only 14/1000 of every second of recorded speech. Yet the result is good comprehension at rates up to 3 times as fast as normal conversation...
...this experiment with Cliffies came a flood of new ideas, and more original uses for compressed speech. As the tapes' discard intervals increased, or, as larger bits of words were deleted, the girls would write down what they thought they had heard, which often had no relation to what had actually been spoken on the tape. This occurrence was not strange in itself; however, what was curious was that a number of girls would write the same "wild" answer, often a proper name. Intrigued, Cramer has begun work on "auditory Rorschach tests," in which he deletes such large segments...
...Communist ex-colonials who now stand on their own. "The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect," Marcos told a joint session of the U.S. Congress. "The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism...