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Many major companies, including General Electric, Mattel Toys, Bristol-Myers and Xerox, are gearing up to invest heavily in feature films. Quaker Oats anted up the entire $2 million for the musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and is now ready to plow its considerable profits back into new films. Wells, Rich, Greene, the advertising agency, will soon complete its first film, Dirty Little Billy, an irreverent rehash of the Billy the Kid legend...
...Xerox Technicality. But legal scholars point out a serious hitch in any stolen property prosecution. The newspapers received duplicating machine copies rather than the actual Government property. While few doubt that stolen-property legislation could be drafted to include such copies, the fact that they are not now mentioned is likely to make prosecution difficult...
...four Supreme Court Justices indicated that they might very well uphold a subsequent espionage conviction. The act, among other specifications, bans "unauthorized possession of information relating to the national defense" and failing to give it up to the proper authorities; such information is obviously just as present in a Xerox copy as in the original. In addition, the act outlaws communicating such information to others, which could be taken to include the act of publishing. The penalty is again a maximum of ten years...
...that in an alpha state a sleep-deprived person may become effective again. Defense Department researchers are said to be toying with the idea that captured U.S. intelligence agents trained to turn on alpha could foul up enemy lie detectors and keep military secrets. In industry, major companies like Xerox and Martin Marietta are investigating biofeedback training to spur creative thinking and reduce executive tension; some are already experimenting with one of the dozen brands of portable brain-wave trainers now available for $300 or less...
...great length its own role in the controversy over the Pentagon papers. "I feel miserable," said Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal as he watched other papers print parts of the Pentagon mother lode that the Times had polished into an eight-day presentation totalling 250,000 words. "A Xerox machine," he grumbled, "is the only self-breeding mechanical contrivance...