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After deadlocking on the motion to reject the F-15 sales, the committee unanimously agreed to send the resolution to the Senate floor without recommendation. This action made a bruising floor fight a virtual certainty, even if Majority Leader Byrd had done his head counting carefully. One doubter was Minority Leader Baker. Said he: "I think it's pretty close...
Bert Lance was still fuming last week about the confiscation of Diplomatic Passport X-000065, that official piece of paper certifying to any doubter anywhere that, while he might be out of Government, he still carried clout as Jimmy Carter's good Georgia buddy. "I don't care about the damn passport," Lance told a friend in Atlanta. "But what a lousy way to handle it. They didn't even have the guts to tell me in person." He had, in fact, merely been informed by a bureaucratic letter that his passport had been "audited" and must...
...laboratory, many paranormalist investigators conduct experiments that mock rigorous and logical procedure. Claims are made, and the burden of proof is shifted to the doubter. Ground rules are laid down by the psychic subject and are all too eagerly accepted by his examiner. If the venture proves unsuccessful, a wide range of excuses are proffered: an unbeliever provided hostile vibrations; the subject was not receiving well; negative influences were present; testing rules were too restrictive. It is all reminiscent of the laws in Through the Looking-Glass, where people approach objects by walking away from them. And it creates...
...movement, there was no pro-gangster lobby to impede new methods of assault on big bad guys. His own experience as the investigator had given him a taste for gangbusting. To carry it out, Kennedy first had to persuade the FBI that organized crime existed (Hoover had been a doubter). The bureau, long a self-governed island within the department, reluctantly agreed to enlist -though on its own terms. The indictment rate soared, and Hoover was more firmly entrenched than ever...
...What is being testified to by the God-is-dead group [Oct. 22] is the difficulty of faith today, rather than the death of God. The difficulty of having faith means that the doubter's resources are so meager that he can conceive only of a God whose existence can be denied...