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orm lead prico of 14.5 conts a s set throughout the industry cau Metal Člimax and St. Jee followed  sareo to that level. imity was. said to raflect a ting markat that is making g less important.

lew Faipuhire plans to build illion nucloar pover complex ed Illuminting Co. and other and utilities. There would be millicn-kiiow att generating e completed by 1981.

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uental risks of Baltimore ctric's controversial Calvert , nuclcar power plant are a" the AEc said in an innent. The plant, cause of an f the conmission's environlicies latt year, was seen cavy ecozumic benefits.

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losings have been blitzing
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ic time hasfbeen practically up for thej second quarter, networks sáy, waming that ctisers co:ld miss cut on the d, too. Ti a carly shllout at : indicate; a recovory from loss oi cigaret ads end of 30 netwock progranming ndusty sources assert it wed busit sss conlidence. (Slury an .k Pace)

ed Mil: Froducers was the Jeetice Department olising tic sade of nilkproriners in 11 siates. The civil e dairy arleting cooperathe larg. à ja the U.S., vioorman /titrust Act.

n compe uy ne: wac' listed on's tvc leading makers. Can sai.' profit was off fourth arter and 23.9% "L u aal Caa ta 00 eres for the ses e poda sere up i and year.

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st3 buen, e pupased by Che resident.

In a mossage to Congress, Nixon ealled for a s1 billica e sion in tcaes for industries and cóntauai Re sald the espansion vas needed for "revitdization of the American countryside" to stem the rvrol-to-city pepule. ton fow. The proposal would provide Ss45 it len for conunercial and industial purposes, and ș155 million to finance water and sewer systems, industrial parks and "relited itenis which would enhancs opportuaities for employment," the White House said. Some so% wouid be adniinistered by the states, and 75% of tha loáns would ba muade by lecal banks and guaranteed by the government.

Tho s1 bilion expansion of credit wouldn't become availuble tntl mid-1973, in an attempt to tio the loun plaa to Nixon's rural revenue-sharing concept.

A BO SATTEED windos of tIe ritish Embassy in Dublin as protests continned.

An estimated 3,000 persons gathered in front of the enibassy, and a police spokesman satd "every available patrolman that can be spared" was at the scene trying to restrain the mob throwing bricks, bottles and gasoline bombs, Another bomb damaged the Wellington Monument. In Northern Ircland, a British soldier was ganned down in; Belfast. Meanwhile, British Home Secrstary ;Reginald Maulding said the arny would conjlnue to use "Jegal force" against "ilegal force" In Ulster. And the British defenso ministcr totally rejected charges that trocps fired indiscriminately into crowds in Londonderry Suday.

Ulster's Prime Mialster Faullaer gave a thinly velled waruing that Protcstaut patiençe may be near an cud, raising the specter of a,backiasl of violcuce.

Italy's premier-desigmite falled to farm a government, raising deinnnds for carly partiamentary clcctions. Emilio Colomko reporied his falluve to President Gioyanni Leone as labor uions went áhead with plans for a gencral strike in Romne tonorrowi Oeservers said parliamentary efections at thià uaic might result in now gains for neo-Fazcists, and noted that (àe sluriping Italian esonohy and the governnieut's fcilure to restrain lubor union de. mands were niajor faetoes in a right-ving backlash in wtich the neo-Faseiats almost doubled their voices in local cloctions last June.

Integrafiont of Olahema Ciy schools. next fall was ordlered by a federal juge. Noting that the case begen to years agb, tuige Luther Echanon caled it "fcustratingly interminable .. because of tha unpardonalle recaich. tranice" of schoul officials in djatthg a desegregation plan. He tien impesc one. In Washington, mcanvhlle, Autorney General Mitchell soiá he is cpposed to nuerging suburban school distriets wihi inner-eity school systems just to: achieve raciat balance.

A move to hatt jah-bias bil delate was rejected, 4s-37, by the Sonate. The key issue 1s the authority the bill would give the Equal Employnient Opportunities Cotnmission to Issuc cease-and-desist orders ta enforce its findings of job ciscrinination.

A neé rouad ot trada talas simes at ta elimnination of trade barriers with ie Us. and as many other countries as possible, will be proposd by te six Conmon Mart forcign míisters, sourees said. The prow. i to. wo

BUSINESS ÁILURES fcll to a scasonaly adjusted rato of 37.5 per 10,000 in December from 41.6 An November,. Dun & Bradstreet Inc. reports.

Be Kind to Plants-Or You Could Cause A Violet to Shrink

How One Lie-Detector Expert, In Turning Over a New Leaf, Decided Plants Have Feelings

By RICHARD MARTIN

S OI Of THE WALL STREE JOtRNAL NEW' YORK-Have you heard about the Hittie oid grandma who swears that by whispering words of enccuragenent to her geranuins and African violets she helus them srov?

Cleve Backster has - many, many tines. Wherever his travels take hini, whether it's Haiti, Lebanon or Grundy Center, Iowa, be runs into people just like her.

Mr. Backstcr isn't a plant faneier; he'a a. polygraph expert, and he doesn't talk. mueh to plants hiniseif. But he does study them a. let, and his obeervations have convinced hint that while plants don't exactly listen to Granzy's sweet talk, they do indeed get the messugeprobably by reəding her mind.

His experiments, in fact, seent to indicate that besiées some sort of telepathic communicalion sstem plants also possess soncthing closely akin to fcelings or emotions, says tr. Buckster, They appreciate being waterei. They worry wher a dog comes near, They fairt when violence threatens their own weil-being. And they sympathize when harn comnes to arimals and insects close to them.

Kow It All Started

Mr. Backster got hooked on piant studies Feb. 2, lsss, in the interregation reom of the Backster School here where he truins pcivate investigators, police and government perzonuel to uso polygraph. maehines-lie-detcetors. He; woncereu how long it would take water ro pad just given a tal, droopy-leafed daaceni. plane to travel fron the roots to tha leavcs, so ke cosnected a pair of polygrapà elcetrodes to leaf, figuring that (he moisture might rvi utlly change its resistance level enough to r ister on his lic-detector.

To his surprlse, he got an Immeltato ly graph reaction pattern that chely re.vmt that of a porson under emolionat stimalat. Wondering whether tha plont wonld adso pue duee a reaction símilar to a huauan's if safety were threatenest, Mr. Paekster deer.! to try buraing a leaf. But brfere he couldl : r : for a moteh, "at the sott second that t hagu  re f my iahd. ta r e ai g c e tp a te h col. it realy shouk nia up."

Since then, Mr, Baekter etiart mode several thouzand obe prt

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geant at Fort Holabird, Md., and later as a polygraph soetion head (or the Central Inteiligence Agsney. He oponed tho Eackator Sehcol in J951. It trains about 50 polygraph operators a year.

He also heads, Backster Associstes, a polygraph consulting and personnel screening service, and Backster Rescarch Foundatioa, his nonprofit plant-studics operation, All. three concerna are located in a warren of cramped, cluttered offices and stark classrcoms in a slightly seedy oflice building a few blocks fron Times Square.

Mr. Backster lives two blocks away in a sparsely furnishied two-bedroom apartment that's devoid of plants. The 47-year-old bachelor spetds most of his time these days polygraphing plants and trying to interest others in his work: a three-man staff does most of the teaching and consulting work.

In the past year or so, Mr. Backster has talked to over ico different groups, including Yalo linguisties students, Dartmouth blologists, Newark Colloge of Engineering alumni, International Nickel Co. technicians, theology students at several universities and rescarchers at the Naval Weapons Center in White Oak. Md.

Turnieg on Scientists

"I don't lika to spend a lot of time talking to groups interested in gardens or psychic pitenomena." he says. "I'in much more intorested in getting scientists turned on te proving these things by repicathng my work." He claims he's already in touch vith sclentists doing similar rescarch using polygrephs, clectrocardiograms and sinflar eqoipment at "25 or 00" universities, but he declines to name apy. "You'll have to wait until they're ready to publish," he says.

Among some ct those faniliar with Nr. Backster's work, recctions are mixed. Protessor Bernard Grad, who is doing biological studies on aging in tho psyehiatry department at MeGill Univeisity, Montrea!, suys eautously: "Jt's very intriguing, but I'ni not an expert in polygraph work, so I don't want to overplay or underplay it."

A spokesman for Ball Telophone Laboratories' Illinois facilities, where Mr, Backsier last year spoke to a seminar of suparvizors, will say only that he gave "en enterteining prcsentation." Bul a Eell Lalss man who heard Mr. Backster speak to an earlior seniinar of New Jeraey Bell Labs engineers and technicians says: "He was a troinendous hit aná everything he said scsmued absolutely credible."

"It's the sort of thing sone peonte voutd disniss out of hand," says Arlher Pinkerton, a 38-yeur-old phyaicist whose specialty is cancer radiation thierapy. He met Mr. Daekster whila on the satt at New York's Sloon-Kettering Ceseer Jasuee, and T tel ar: you ah le y that tere is certainy bemeibing goiag en. Luring Setious Reseurchers

By sticking to obaerving plants and eggs and making sotl speuchna ta lota ot suienitne groes. Ne aekrter fecres he sd- the seareh this way." he explairs. "Elther they see the impiications of my observations and beconie intenacly interested or they just ignore me conplctely."

The pulsating egs "eoutd have profound iraplications for origin-of-lite research," he thinks. "This gets us into a force fiold that may regulate dovelopment of the circulatory system, some sort of genctic blueprint that hasn't been kaown to exist."

Mr. Backster isn't quite. sure himself just what all the impllcations ot his observations might be. "We can test fruits and vegetables until they are cooked or completcly rolted away and slil get reactions," he says. ""This capability seems to extend right down to tha single cell level." Furthermore, he says, the signals can't be scrcened out by distance, lead shields or the elcctronic fields of interforeuce that interrupt conventional communieatior.s.

"We're getting into another dimension, a scientific (wilight area in which sonething can go fron point to polnt without going botween them and without consuming time to get there," he says. "But that won't be as weird as wc might think; it could simpiy mean that some'of the things that were once laughed at in theoretical physics are finally falliug into place."

"I'm also beginniug to seo a lot of shuilari. ties between the vehicle involved hore and the phenomena cf prayer," says Mr. Backster. "As a former agnostic who didn't take the trouble to be an atheist, I see sone very high-level theological and spiriiual implications of this-it opers (ho way for scienilfic exploration of tho concept of the soul and seens to indicate a scientific justification for the power of prayer." An Urhappy Experience

He also sees "fantastic Implications in this for the science of crine detection." But Mr. Backster says he's lecving those for others to explore, sincc hc's already had one unhappy experieuce in that area.

He tried a variation of the "plant küle" ex perimeit in an actual police case nore than a year szo. A girl had been murdered late at night in a factory office and scores of maíntenance personnel were among the suspects. Flabbergasted police oficers let Mr. Backster polyraph two plants that had "witnessed" the crime as the plant vorkers paraded through the office one by one. The plants failed to reaet and copvenlional police investigative procodures later turned up the kifler outside the compony.

Word of ths experiment leaked out in e Natlonal Wildlife Magazhne story about Nir. Backster's plants recently. ('I thought we were olf tho reeord," he says.) When they heard about fis story, other nenbers of the polygraph operators' fratarrity threatennd to expei Mr. Backster fron their national aszociatfon if te ever tried sueh e. thing agaia.

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