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...long seemed hardly more than an emptiness between the earth and the stars. But space probers have found that it has a geography as complex as the maze of pipes and conduits under a downtown city street. Last week the Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J. reported the discovery of a new and unsuspected duct of ionized particles that leads magnetic waves around the earth...
...were picked up by the earth's magnetic field and lofted in arching curves around the earth in a man-made imitation of the Van Allen radiation belts. This effect was expected and was duly observed by U.S. scientists. But a team of the Army's Fort Monmouth men, led by Dr. Hans A. Bomke, was quietly watching for subtler effects. To pick up the faint traces they were looking for, they had to establish a widespread network of magnetometers, enlisted the help of Sweden, Iceland and Portugal. At each site, a huge antenna was laid...
Presbyterian Loehr, 45, was trained as a chemist at Illinois' Monmouth College before he turned to the ministry and "religious research." When he heard six years ago that Duke University's famed extrasensory perceptionist, Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, was testing the effect of prayer on plants, Loehr and his associates bought two sealed jars of water, prayed hard over one, ignored the other, and used them to water two equal sets of seeds, planted under identical conditions. Two weeks later the prayed-over water had produced seven seedlings, the ordinary water only three. "It looked as though...
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...Willie Hartack, three-time (1955-56-57) national jockey champion, made his debut as a jumping rider at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, gave Mielaison a near-perfect ride over the ten-jump, 1¾-mile course, won by 4½ lengths, announced: "It was a greater thrill than winning the Kentucky Derby...