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DIED. Joseph Banks Rhine, 84, father of experimental parapsychology in America and comer of the term extrasensory perception; in Hillsborough, N.C. Fascinated by psychic phenomena after hearing a 1922 lecture on the subject by Sherlock Holmes Creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rhine later helped establish one of the nation's first parapsychology laboratories, at Duke University. His 1934 book, Extra-Sensory Perception, documented laboratory-controlled demonstrations of clairvoyance and telepathy and made ESP a household term...
Stanley Roth, 81-year-old creator of the chair, was managing partner and principal stockholder of Apparel Buying Association, which leased ladies' and children's apparel departments in Woolco stores. His endowment of the chair is Roth's "way of sharing with the community the fruits of his work in retailing," Salmon said...
...Sullivan is best known at Harvard, other universities, and the corporate world as the creator of guidelines for non-discriminatory labor practices known as the Sullivan Principles. Endorsed by 135 of the 300 U.S. corporations doing business in South Africa, the principles guarantee for black South Africans desegregation in all company facilities, fair employment practices, equal pay, the initiation of training programs to prepare blacks for supervisory and administrative jobs, an increased number of blacks in management, and improvement of the quality of employees' housing, transportation, education, recreation and health facilities. Sullivan says the principles are designed, at the very...
...tick off highlights of his career. One of the war's youngest pilots, winning his Navy wings at 18. Shot down over the Pacific and four hours adrift at sea before being rescued by a submarine crew. Three air medals and the DFC. Phi Beta Kappa at Yale. Creator of an independent off shore oil drilling firm in Texas. A millionaire at 41. Twice elected to Congress from Houston. Nor does he shun name-dropping. "The last time I saw Mao," he will inject into an answer about world affairs, or "I've been to the Khyber Pass...
Satiemania is one of the longest films in the 14th International Tournee of Animation. Its creator, Yugoslavian (Zagreb) Zdenko Gasparovic, fills the screen for 15 minutes with images drawn from the music of composer Erik Satie. Beginning with a bevy of streetwalkers, the film progresses to a vibrantly red evocation of early 19th century Paris, a world seamier even than Toulouse-Lautrec's. Here prostitutes bite men's heads off, delicately remove their clothing, and loll sexily on plush pillows...