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Buell was also very friendly with the top management of General Electric and International Nickel -- and, if I remember correctly, one of John Wingate's brothers was CEO there. The pool could be donated to the ASPR -- or to my own research group should I decide to set one up. Quite naturally I was flattered on the one hand, but horrified on the other -- and somewhat frightened also. "But Buell," I protested, what if the formal experiments at the ASPR screw up? What then? How will you explain that to all the donors of this pool?" "Never mind. People bring their own money to projects all the time. We're talking about sensible people here, businessmen who know what working on spec is all about. Most business leaders WANT to know how to increase their own ESP. Besides, the experiments won't fail, and so you have to start planning for your future. We're all interested in this, you know." "But we're not taking about sensible businessmen here. We're talking about the ASPR -about parapsychologists. If such an amount of money entered into the picture I'd be resisted anyway, because I'm not a trained parapsychologist. "I'd be accused of trying to buy my way into the ASPR -- can you imagine a mere testsubject trying to buy his way into -- well, anyway I thought you felt the place was a cesspool."