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...congratulate you on your perceptive and timely Essay "On Death as a Constant Companion" [Nov. 12]. You show that the answer of religion to doubts about death does not satisfy modern man, and that philosophy and science have done no better. I remind you of parapsychology, or psychical research, which attempts the scientific study of phenomena not yet understood by physical principles. Most research done in this field deals with extrasensory perception, but there are also investigators, like me, who are concerned with studies that may throw light on whether or not human personality or some aspect of it survives...
...bolster the company's position in the cigarette-lighter market, Singer brought out a new butane lighter as a companion to Scripto's popular see-through Vu-Lighter. He is considering dozens of other new products, among them a novel wide-view camera...
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, by Joe Orton. The English theater is going through a sick-comedy phase. The Killing of Sister George, a smash hit now playing in London, centers on an elderly, cigar-smoking lesbian and her doll-baby secretary-companion. Whenever the younger woman offends the older, she is forced to atone for it. One penance is to drink a cup of the old lesbian's bath water, another is to chew up one of her soggy cigar stumps...
...checks to holders of its credit cards, and vice versa. In addition, it will try to sell its banking services to many of the 450,000 Carte Blanche cardholders, and to introduce the credit card to its own 566,000 checking-account customers. It is even talking about a companion "Carte Bleue" that New Yorkers might use In neighborhood stores. What the bank aims for is a fully rounded financial service, in which a customer can save, borrow and charge everything from hospital care to trips abroad...
...horror: Daniele, a sole survivor of a Nazi raid on the Venice ghetto, put bread on the ground before starving German prisoners of war and forced them to crawl on all fours to get it. Slowly, by fits and starts, Levi reawakened to reality. From a peremptory Greek companion, he learned basic survival tactics: "He who has shoes can search for food." Then one day Levi asked directions from a Polish priest, got an answer in Latin, felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of restoration to humanity and health. His memoir is dignified and affecting, a gentle epic of recuperation...