A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

Dear Time-Reader

On page 7 of this issue you will find a two-column cut of the Cerebro-Optical Dynamagon Chonphuser. This formidable instrument is Reader Brysselbout's elaborate answer to the Nofer Trunnions story our Science Editor tucked away at the end of his section in the April 15th issue of TIME.

In reprinting excerpts from Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s parody of the language chemists and engineers use, some of you have suggested that our Science Editor was hoodwinked into thinking he was making scientific sense. Not so. He was merely giving wider circulation to the engineering firm's kidding the mumbo -jumbo language in which...

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