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Ronald McRae, a former investigative reporter for Columnist Jack Anderson, tells of this type of clandestine assignation and of other operations between the Pentagon and the so-called psychic community in his book Mind Wars, to be published this spring. It is one of several forthcoming works, written by both skeptics and believers, on the military's forays into parapsychology, the quasi-science that studies the interaction of mind and matter. According to McRae, who is skeptical of psychic claims, the Department of Defense has spent $6 million annually in recent years to research such phenomena as extrasensory perception...
...about sports and politics attracts. Both are sudden-death games. Congressman Jack Kemp, the former Bills quarterback who now calls signals for the advocates of the gold standard, rates this Super Bowl just below the invasion of Grenada and above another House budget fight. He would not miss it. Columnist Carl Rowan says he might kill if he were denied a ticket. He is going in Owner Jack Kent Cooke's jetted and pampered entourage. ''Everybody has a little aggression in them," insists Rowan. "We can all get emotionally involved...
...Stockbroker Billy Bob Harris, 44, who is "a regular celebrity groupie," says Writer Edwin ("Bud") Shrake, a former Dallas sports columnist. Harris is friendly with Don Meredith, former Dallas Cowboy quarterback, ABC Monday Night Football commentator and TV pitchman; former Cowboy and Denver Bronco Quarterback Craig Morton, his onetime roommate; and country-and-western Singer Kenny Rogers. The broker's parties are known for "wall-to-wall girls, champagne, hot tubs and more girls," says Shrake. They were vividly portrayed in fictionalized form in the movie North Dallas Forty. Harris, who gave stock reports on Dallas TV, announced...
...Wick, director of the United States Information Agency, is guilty of several rather damning actions, few of them illegal but most of them certainly unethical. First and perhaps most depressing from the man who runs the Voice of America. Wick lied to New York Times reporter Jane Perlez and columnist William Safire when they questioned him about his taping activities. Although Wick had been taping conversations for some time and may well have carried about a tape device for use when away from the office, he denied to Safire and Perlez that he had ever taped without the consent...
summer team. Fuji, meanwhile, has also been winning points for quality and low prices. Says Modern Photography magazine Columnist Martin Hershenson, about Fuji slide film: "It actually beats Kodachrome in color saturation. Kodak used to stand alone in the film area, but it's simply not that way any more...