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...articulate spokesmen and scientific terminology, however, the new world of psi still has a serious credibility problem. One reason is that like any growth industry or pop phenomenon, it has attracted a fair share of hustlers. Indeed, the psychic-phenomena boom may contain more charlatans and conjurers, more naļfs and gullibles than can be found on the stage and in the audience of ten Ringling Brothers circuses. The situation is not helped at all by the "proofs" that fail to satisfy traditional canons of scientific investigations. Despite the published discoveries, despite the indefatigable explorations of the psychic researchers...
...they searched the audience for danger, looking no doubt for the face of black rage. Verwoerd was shot by a mild white man who slipped through unsuspected. John and Robert Kennedy, whose enemies were supposed to be enlisted in a sophisticated right-wing conspiracy, were assassinated by naïfs associated with Cuban and Arab causes. Of all the recent assassinations, in fact, only Martin Luther King's seems to have been committed by an expected enemy...
...present theme of Dutch Novelist-Playwright Jan de Hartog. In this first of two novels in progress, he takes the history of the Religious Society of Friends from Cromwell's England, 1652, to Pennsylvania, 1755, and the brink of the French-Indian war. The Peaceable Kingdom fs clumsily written. Nevertheless De Hartog, a Friend himself, has managed to indicate the range of religious experience, from hot ecstasy to prim rule of procedure-and sometimes back again. De Hartog's four stages of religion go something like stages of religion go something like this: in the beginning, naturally, there...
...past shimmered the memory of delicate high notes and feminine charm. Soprano Lily Rons, who once warbled Fs above high C, was back in the news. The famed opera singer of the '30s and '40s was honored by the French government with the badge of Commander of the National Order of Merit for her "services to France," including her patriotic work during World War II. One enduring memory: petite Pons singing La Marseillaise to tear-drenched thousands in Rockefeller Center the day Paris was liberated in August...
...Fs are categorically exempted from military service; 1-Ys are exempted except during a declared war or national emergency...