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■ It’s a new gimmick, a psychological stress evaluator, and what it does is evaluate, through your voice, how much stress you’re under when asked a question and if you evaluate out stressfully then it’s pretty (94.7 per cent) sure that you’ve told a lie. Can’t you see it now. Just before the signing. The President turns to the Secretary General. “Say, Leonid, you’re not going to cheat on this one too, are you?” “On my honor as a Communist.” And, as the psychological stress evaluator collapses . . . It would mean a lot fewer treaties.

■ The Joint Economic Committee is to be applauded for noticing, as Senator Proxmire put it, that wage-price regulations “have become totally ineffective,” and were “a costly mistake.” In suggesting that controls should remain on large corporations and be lifted from state and local government employees, however, Proxmire’s committee got everything topsy-turvy. Government workers, particularly in large cities, have engaged the largest pay increases of any group except construction workers, while the corporate manufacturing sector has shown the smallest increases, in both wages and prices, over many years.

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■ It’s a new gimmick, a psychological stress evaluator, and what it does is evaluate, through your voice, how much stress you’re under when asked a question and if you evaluate out stressfully then it’s pretty (94.7 per cent) sure that you’ve told a lie. Can’t you see it now. Just before the signing. The President turns to the Secretary General. “Say, Leonid, you’re not going to cheat on this one too, are you?” “On my honor as a Communist.” And, as the psychological stress evaluator collapses . . . It would mean a lot fewer treaties.

■ The Joint Economic Committee is to be applauded for noticing, as Senator Proxmire put it, that wage-price regulations “have become totally ineffective,” and were “a costly mistake.” In suggesting that controls should remain on large corporations and be lifted from state and local government employees, however, Proxmire’s committee got everything topsy-turvy. Government workers, particularly in large cities, have engaged the largest pay increases of any group except construction workers, while the corporate manufacturing sector has shown the smallest increases, in both wages and prices, over many years.