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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 na??fs 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...
Whattagay this Barlow is, Except that he's a little too clumsy and stumbly and na??¯ve, he is you and me. He is simple irreverant, and romantic - an honest warrior against the overwhelming force of the big people. And Robert Morse pulls it off perfectly; he writes poetry (They tell me, Francis Hinsley,/They tell me you were hung/With red protruding eyeballs/And black protruding tongue...) and does lots of things we've all--well, some of us have--been tempted to do, like kissing the breast of a piece of sculpture...
...been Buck's policy in admissions, and Dean of Admissions Bender presently is seeking such students, continually drawing on generous scholarship funds. Thus Provost Buck's consistency in following a policy that aids as many as possible starts even before the entering class his entered. Certainly not a na??¯ve idealism, his faith in scholastic latitude perhaps formed first in the southern Ohio town where he remembers seeing one high school classmate working as a Hotel doorman and another directing the local bank. "It is difficult to maintain this valley of democracy," he admits, but the University can contribute...
Racing toward the U. S. this week on the Italian liner Rex was honest, na??ve, likable, tousle-haired Joseph Aloysius Lyons, Premier of the Commonwealth of Australia, soon to swap grins in the White House with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and indulge in genial economic horse trading...
...Schacht refuses to understand," wailed a close friend of Dr. Goebbels. "He has cut to zero the sums we may transmit out of the Fatherland for enlightenment abroad." In their sorrow Dr. Goebbels' somewhat na??ve henchmen then revealed a fact?utterly staggering if it were a fact. They said blandly that Dr. Goebbels has been spending on propaganda abroad 200,000,000 marks or $80,000,000 a year, nearly $10,000 per hour, night & day. Since this would be enough to pay the interest for over two years on the Dawes and Young bonds now belligerently defaulted...