TSI: lifelines- Original Sat Eve Post Transcript

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Does anyone have a copy of the original Saturday Evening
Post, December 1964, version of TSI, or other earlier version?

I'm particularly interested in the following, on p.186 of the
Back Bay Books/ Little Brown version, where the narrator
describes Grover's demonstration of the mathematical
meaning of integration:

       -drawing straight vertical lines from the curve down
       to the x-axis, like the bars of a jail cell- 

Grover states:

       -you can have as many of these as you want, see,
       as close together as you want-

Tim says:

       Till it's all solid...

Grover corrects:

       No, it never gets solid. If this was a jail cell, and
       those LIVES [my emphasis] were bars...

I'm wondering if the substitution of 'v' for 'n' changing
'lines' into 'lives' is a deliberate or a misprint. If deliberate
it changes, somewhat, the meaning for me.

There is a correspondence, of sorts, in the other striking
correction this time of Etienne by Grover on page 192, where 
Etienne confuses "calvary" officer for "cavalry" officer. But in this
case, there is no possibility of a misprint, both the narrator's and
Grover's intentions are explicit.

respectfully
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