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...there be higher spiritual agencies that can directly touch us, the psychological condition of their doing so might be our possession of a subconscious region which alone should yield access to them. The hubbub of the waking life might close a door which in the dreamy Subliminal might remain ajar or open...
...preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand mandarin of French letters, Paulhan is director of the influential Nouvelle Revue Française. "Even to set the covers of L'Histoire d'O ajar is to open the gates of hell," said Academician François Mauriac. Nevertheless, enough members were inclined to open the academy's gates to Paulhan, who was elected the 39th Immortal...
...Ajar Door. Speaking in the Legislative Council last week. Colonial Secretary Claude Burgess said Hong Kong's 3,250,000 population (a density of 8,200 per sq. mi.) was "now dangerously swollen'' and required a restrictive immigration policy to maintain the present standard of living. In sum. the speech suggested that Hong Kong will get tougher on the refugees but will continue to leave the door slightly ajar. One telling point made by Burgess: the refugee problem is one that "no country in the world is in practice willing to share with us." Over the past...
...problem with the attitude control system was nothing as compared with another threat. Just as Glenn was beginning his second orbit, an instrument panel in the Project Mercury Control Center at Canaveral picked up a warning that the Fiberglas heat shield on Friendship 7 had come ajar. If the shield were to separate before or during the capsule's re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, John Glenn would perish in a flash of flame...
...only Yank executive among 4,000 employees-and a pretty obvious one. After nine months spent boning up on Monsanto's British subsidiary, Garrels arrives in his paneled London office at a tradition-shattering 9 a.m. (at least an hour before most Britons), keeps his office door ajar (to "see who goes to the bathroom"), first-names his protocol-conscious associates. One of Garrels' big problems will be matching last year's record turnover of $60 million in the face of government belt tightening. Garrels feels that the British economy "lacks fat." Says he: "Whenever it gets...