Weidenmuller. 24 Nonradiative effects due to electron screening, nuclear electromagnetic form factor effects, iT-capture competition and second forbidden matrix element corrections seem to be agreed upon. 32 All of these effects are included in Table I.It is fair to say that a vector boson can explain the current muon lifetime discrepancy, although its mass should not be much greater than 500 MeV. If the indications from CERN 3 that M ~ 1.3M P are confirmed, we 32 L. Durand, L. F. Landowitz, and R. B. Marr, Phys. Rev. Letters 4, 620 (1960).T TNITARITY implies that a Regge-pole term U ftt)/i-*(t) (i) near a sharp resonance at t=to, aR(k) = l satisfies the relations PR~T (the width of the resonance) and &I<&PR-Since &R is positive at to, the latter condition implies that the phase of /3 must essentially be a multiple of 2TT at a resonance. 1 This is a strong restriction on the phase; the value it takes, namely, -0, 2w, etc., determines to a large extent how fast # or rather the reduced residue y (see below) falls off for /<0. The behavior in the negative t region is of some interest since it was pointed out recently 2 that if y of the Pomeranchuk pole (P) showed a sharp diffraction-type fall off for small -t, then the Regge-pole approximation 3 may still be adequate in explaining the high-energy behavior of scattering amplitudes. The question of shrinkage or absence of it can then be understood in terms of appropriate linear combinations of P with other important poles. 2 We shall show below that if f° lies on the P trajectory and if the phase is 2w at // then one obtains an exponential type falloff for small -/, with a width comparable to the one observed experimentally, and a power falloff * Work supported in part by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. 1 More precisely, 2mr-{-0(