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So that's--if you have any questions, maybe I can answer them. But that's pretty much the story. But it's part of my life doubling back on me, you see.

Q:

Yes. It's so interesting. You had mentioned the Mormon connection earlier, but I didn't realize it requires you to visit Utah once a month. And this kind of brings it together. Could you tell me some of the other AEA projects you were involved with? I think there was one called Teletrend. Was that it? Or “Tele-something.”

Stanton:

Well, I'm on the board of Berol, which is a big pencil and writing instrument company, doing business in Central America and Europe and in the United States.

Q:

Is that Beryl spelled B-e-r-y-l?

Stanton:

No, it's B-e-r-o-l, and I'm sorry I don't have one of the pencils here. Yes! This is one of the pencils. This is a pencil for kids.

Q:

For the sake of you who can't see this, it's wildly colorful. [Laughs]

Stanton:

Yes. But what I wanted to show you, and I'm sorry I don't have it, is a pencil that's made out of--oh, here's another one of those wild ones--out of the trimmings from the manufacture of jeans. The barrel of the pencil is made out of--it's a synthetic material. See, wood for pencils is getting very expensive, and these pencils are--I think this is plastic. This one is wood, and this one is plastic again. [Clinking of pencils being sorted through]





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