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...Jeane Dixon's words and prophecies have been eagerly awaited by a multitude of followers. And despite considerable skepticism, not to say amusement, in the scientific community, a small band of researchers, led by Duke University's J. B. Rhine, 73, is still pursuing the mystery of ESP, or extrasensory perception, and its related phenomenon, PK, or psychokinesis, the power of the mind to control matter...
...Last summer, the first premonitions lab in the U.S. was opened at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center. So far, the lab has been unable to make a scientific case for the power of premonitions to foretell the future. In Seattle, the Boeing Co. for a time backed the ESP researches of a theoretical physicist on its staff, Dr. Helmut Schmidt. Though ESP contradicts all known physical laws, Schmidt contends that certain gifted psychic subjects have consistently "outguessed" his electronic random number generator, in spite of extraordinary odds against such a feat...
...future issues, the Behavior staff will be writing about almost everything that falls beneath that broad heading, from hippies' communes to animal studies that shed light on man's actions, from ESP to minorities and prejudice. As the major story in the first section, the editors present Sociologist Erving Goffman and his studies of the rules underlying behavior at the impromptu social events that he calls "gatherings." The story was written by Associate Editor John Koffend and edited by Senior Editor John T. Elson, both of whom this week launch a section that TIME intends...
...Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics, esp. p. viii...
...More pervasive magic: ESP. The four characters are aware of certain approaching events. They anticipate initial and crucial points of connection, almost as if they were manipulated by a larger force. Which is, in fact, the case. Witch of Changes, mixing her patterns, for what...