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With Outstretched Hand. One day a woman seemed about to faint when D'Angelo told her that her missing soldier son had been killed. He reached out a wizardly hand to steady her. Before he could touch her, he claims, she felt the strength of his proffered hand. "Let's try again," he said, and made another gesture. Again the woman felt an invisible but powerful force flowing from his fingertips. Thus, says D'Angelo, he discovered that he was a battery of healing "magnetic fluid...
...this is faint praise. The Republican Party, long out of power, with no efficient big-city machines to train its organizers, is short on Brownell's kind of talent. He is top man-but in a major league that through 20 lean years has fallen into many minor-league ways...
Dutch Sea Captain Jan Drent, now 59, never imagined that learned astronomers would ever take serious note of his lifetime hobby. While studying navigation at the Kweek School voor de Zeevaart (a merchant marine academy), he heard about the zodiacal light, a faint, wedge-shaped glow that reaches into the sky near the plane of the earth's orbit. It is best seen in the tropics just after dusk or just before dawn. Astronomers now believe that it is sunlight reflected from small particles revolving around the sun like miniature planets, but in Drent's youth the experts...
...nearly 40 years, Drent sailed the world's seas on the ships of the Nederland Line. At night he watched the faint glow in the sky and came to know it intimately. He made detailed notes and grew so interested that he took two years off to study physics and astronomy at the Sorbonne. Back at sea with his new knowledge and the title of Licencié ès Sciences, he began an intensive study of the zodiacal light. He plotted its hazy outline against the wheeling stars and kept records of its position, which changes with the seasons...
...Clouds (small, comparatively nearby galaxies) seemed to be much fainter intrinsically than similar clusters in the Milky Way. This offended the astronomers' sense of order. They felt that the clusters in both galaxies should be about equally bright. When clusters in the great Andromeda galaxy also proved too faint, the astronomers suspected their calculations...