Antedating of "Outside the Box" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> To make matters even more interesting, as far as the puzzle is
> concerned, Gardner had proposed a solution that uses only three
> lines--provided we are dealing with "physical dots" or circles, not
> geometric points. I'll leave it to your outside the box thinking to
> figure that one out.
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Realizing that all your books are in storage, can you point me in the
direction of the Gardner cite?  I have his collected columns from
Scientific American on CD-ROM and searched them for this puzzle, and
came up with nothing.
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