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...Existence of God (Oxford; $37.50), Richard Swinburne of England's Keele University concludes: "The experience of so many men in their moments of religious vision corroborates what nature and history show to be quite likely-that there is a God who made and sustains man and the universe." Basil Mitchell, a philosopher of religion at Oxford, advocates a "many-stranded rope of reason" like that employed by historians or scientists to develop the best explanation of evidence. Among his strands: individuals' experience of a mysterious "other" outside nature, the simple faith of believers and "cosmic awe" in encountering...
Ford populates her 509-page book with imaginary characters who might have been rented from Dickens: Vivian Fein Quales, Jason Seldom, Basil Prout, Lance Loomer, Dr. Madora Waxley and Eden Ceilings worth, among others. Some of her advice could have been lifted from a phrase book written in Taiwan, for example, changing the subject during an unpleasant conversation: "Did you know Cecily Margolis is getting braces, along with her oldest, Agatha...
...final question was voiced by the Daily Express: "How many more spies are there?" Boyle claims there was a "fifth man" and hints that he was Physicist Wilfrid Basil Mann, who was an attaché in the British embassy in Washington from 1948 to 1951 and is now a senior physicist at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md. Boyle says the fifth man passed atomic-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, but was trapped by then CIA Agent James Jesus Angleton and turned into a double agent. Angleton will not talk, and Mann told the London Daily Telegraph...
...very notion of "public" in the mind of most library users. But the prevailing mood is still one of gratitude. A few days ago, Sidney Carroll, 66, a television writer and a library addict, leaned back from his notes on the turn-of-the-century Arms Tycoon Basil Zaharoff and reflected aloud: "One of the reasons I live in New York is this library. I love this room. It's hot, but not too much. The types outside the library have changed, but the caliber in side doesn...
...tended to obscure the fact that the "diet-heart hypothesis," as the cholesterol link with coronary disease is known, remains a theory and the subject of heated debate. True, studies have established that high cholesterol levels in the blood are associated with increased heart disease. But, admits Dr. Basil Rifkind, chief of the lipid metabolism branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, "what's missing is the proof that you can prevent heart disease by reducing cholesterol...