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Just as Rhine's laboratory is furnished with gadgets for testing subjects with trick playing cards, dice cages and colored marbles in a golden ball, so his world of the mind is full of futuristic furnishings. There is the overall term ESP (for extrasensory perception) for what used to be called clairvoyance and telepathy. This. says - Rhine, might be the explanation for the case of the California cat. Then there is PK (psychokinesis), for the alleged power to influence events by nonphysical means-e.g., a crapshooter "willing" the fall of the dice. And there is precognition, or ability...
Beyond the gaudy city limits the desert closes in, and beyond the funereal mountains in the distance lie the ghosts of boom towns past-Virginia City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning...
Like its Hollywood predecessors, The Robe translates a simple Biblical theme into extravaganza. It tells the story of Marcellus Gallio, the man who executed Christ, and of his eventual conversion to Christianity. Gallio, expertly played by Richard Burton, wins Christ's robe in a dice game beneath the Cross. He sees the robe first as a symbol of his own fear, later as the means to his salvation...
Handed the routine military job of supervising the execution of Christ ("a fanatical troublemaker "), Burton passes the time on Calvary by winning Christ's robe in a dice game. In the earth-shaking storm that follows the Crucifixion, Burton loses his robe, his slave and apparently his sanity. Returned to Italy, he becomes convinced that he was bewitched by the dead Messiah, and accepts an imperial commission to go back to Palestine to investigate the un-Roman activities of the new sect. He finds Mature and the robe at Cana, in Galilee, but exposure to the gentle habits...
...women in prison because their stories differed too widely from women in ordinary life Included are females aged 2 to 90 (little girls' apparent sexual responses were reported by adults), from a wide variety of social, economy, and cultural backgrounds. Sample occupations-acrobat, archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe...