After the WLC acquisition of MRC in June 1968 by the Westinghouse Learning Corporation (WLC), it became an annual exercise for the MRC Iowa City Engineering Manager (John V. McMillin) to prepare a recommended/suggested list of research projects that the Central Research Laboratories of WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, located in Churchill, PA, could assist the MRC Division Engineering Department in reaching their Product Development goals and strategic objectives. Thus, shortly after the June 1968 WLC acquisition of MRC, I was required to submit my first 'WEC R & D Lab Assistance Report' - for which MRC Engineering Budget was assessed an internal funding allocation, which was sometimes viewed as an unnecessary expense burden. A review of my 13-page Response Report shows that MRC's Engineering priorities were 'rubber' reading heads (e.g. the sensing elements could expand or shrink, electronically, to align with variable size sheets due to humidity variations), the processing of multi-format documents (for competitive reasons against NCS, Digitek, IBM, GE, and others who were in the OMR business in those days), new approaches to sensor-arrays, including TV-type tubes, flying-spot scanners, fiber-optic technology, and optical holography, and related issues. It is interesting to note, more than three decades later, that several of these concepts were eventually developed, others were abandoned