Tyler Ornamental Iron and Bronze Seattle, to university professors at Berkeley. For a few hours it will be Christmas Eve for all the millions of us—each person different, with his own thoughts and feelings. One family’s Christmas tree will be made of elittering aluminum, and decorated with flick- ering lights and with fragile glass ornaments. It will look modern and expensive. Another family’s tree will be cut from the woods, and adorned with popcorn strung on threads, a gold paper crown, and other homemade decorations. It may be a little lopsided but it will have a warm, homey, old-fashioned look. Which is right? Both are, of course. The point of Christmas isn’t how we celebrate it, but simply the fact that the evening and the day are given to us, once again, for whatever good and kind use we can make of them. We wish you the best and kindest use of them, and hope the spirit of this Christmas will be especially pleasant in your memory as 1965 begins. Nothing blocks progress like having an ample deadline. two Tyler Elevator Entrances and Cars For a long time it looked as though the advance of medicine and psychiatry was depriving us all of our individuality. The more we learned about people, the more peo- ple turned out to be just like one another. But there have been heartening discoveries to the contrary. Fingerprints are unique to each individual. Apparently ears are, too. And our ear, nose and throat doctor tells us that a similar distinction has been found in the human voice. He says that the individual’s vocal chords, and the shape of his mouth, nasal cavities, throat and chest all go to make up a unique combination. The result apparently is that if you record a voice, and break it down into a written graph of its various component sounds, the pattern looks a little different for every person. More interesting still, the pattern persists even though the person tries to disguise his voice. While the scientific demonstration is new, the fact has been recognized for ages. “‘I’d know that voice anywhere,” people say. You may have had the unnerving experience of hearing a word or two, in a crowd, that three