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...knowledge does not come through sense perception, but intuitively and at will. Hence the telepathic and clairvoyant abilities of certain individuals in a state, says Wiesinger, of partial liberation from the body. Conversely, the partly liberated soul may be that of a dead person bound to a particular place-freer than embodied man but less free than it should...
Last week, in the American University's Watkins Gallery in Washington, D.C., the windfall result of their modest collecting spree was on view-a selection of 86 Japanese and Chinese paintings, sculpture and ceramics from their collection in Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay...
...trade debt paid, he fired the unlucky Minister of Finance who had sanctioned excessive military purchases, and sent into the job a bright young banker named Luis Morales Gomez. In an earnest television speech, the President denied any undue enrichment in office. The press in Bogota is freer than it has been in years. The assembly has duly debated. And the offending Third Force was unceremoniously junked, pleasing Cardinal Luque, who says: "Our relations with the government are cordial-for the time being...
...present-day liberal and conservative have both rejected philosophical extremes, share similar goals, even though they disagree violently on the ways to reach them. Spokesmen for both political parties recognize the need for better housing, broader educational opportunity, more effective health insurance, elimination of racial and religious discrimination, freer foreign trade, the continuing responsibility of the U.S. to share its wealth and technical prowess with the underdeveloped nations of the world. But the liberal looks first to Government to do many of the tasks on the ground that Government can do them quicker. The conservative, who knows that the hasty...
...that all available production both in the U.S. and abroad will be needed. For the short run, restricting imports would not only place a heavy burden on diminishing U.S. oil reserves; it would also undo much of the good will the U.S. has built up in its efforts toward freer trade...