Word: metered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, 57, is an evangelist who contends that his E-meters can not only detect unhealthy habit patterns that he calls "engrams," but can also pick up subtle emanations from such inanimate objects as a tomato (TIME, Aug. 23). As part of the "audit," a person holds two soup cans that are connected to the E-meter, a crude galvanometer that supposedly translates slight variations in voltage into a measurement of emotional reaction. The interviews, which are conducted by trained Scientologists, sound like a cross between psychoanalysis and an encounter with a Zen master...
...sore spot on the Radcliffe team has been the lack of any divers, and this deficiency cost the 'Cliffe the meet. The 3-meter diving competition was swept by Springfield College, which also took first and third on the 1-meter board...
...Harvard swimmers took firsts. Captain Marty Chalfie won the 1000-free, Steve Baumgart captured the top spot in the 200-free, Jonny Munk was first in the 200-yard individual medley, and Terry Flanagan won the 200-yard backstroke event. As usual, Bill Murphy was tops in the one-meter diving...
...urinal, down on a toilet seat and up above a blood-soaked operating amphitheater. Yet with all his excesses, Marquand is a figure of refinement compared with Scenarist Buck Henry (The Graduate), whose idea of humor is an aside to the heroine: "Why don't you put a meter on it and we'll all get rich...
Probably the easiest Crimson triumph was recorded by Dick Eisenberg, who was the only competitor in the one meter dive. Eisenberg performed well, nonetheless...