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These are a few of the momentous developments that will engross the Great American Electronic Family with the start of the new television season this Sunday. In addition to the familiar programs, the networks will introduce 21 new shows in prime time. Never have producers of TV fare worked harder to catch the viewer's fancy; never have the financial stakes been so high for the industry...
...their respective memory banks: the analytical mind and the reactive mind. The former is rational (in fact, Hubbard compares it to a perfect computer); the latter is subconscious, operating solely on a stimulus-response basis. It records engrams, or painful memories, which are subject to constant re-stimulation. These engross carry an electrical charge, which is removed by the auditing process. An essential fixture of auditing is the E-meter, a crude form of lie detector with two tin cans, attached by wires to a meter. The pre-clear holds the cans in his hands and the meter measures electrical...
Cooke focuses on minutiae. As he sees it, they tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. Reverence for the flag, for instance. Outside of the emerging na tions of Africa, he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as "some kind of pervert...
...anything to say about it, it will also be one of the hardest-working sessions in memory, for he means to use it as his springboard to the Great Society. Contemplating the President's legislative program, Senator Everett Dirksen remarked wearily that "there would easily be enough to engross the time and the attention not of one but of a number of Congresses...
Which, When & Where? Museum Director Molajoli rapidly found himself in the middle of one of the most vociferous of the debates that engross the international museum fraternity: how to light a painting. From the Renaissance to the 19th century, side-window lighting was the principal solution, with now and then a smoking torch to light a royal procession through a gallery. The Louvre's Grande Galerie, begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail...