Word: nolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early in the first period wing John Moot drove home the first of his two goals off the rebound of a Bill Nolen wrister, lifting it over prone netminder Kevin Woods. Center Andy Spaulding also got credit for an assist on the goal...
...freshman tennis team traveled north to Dartmouth yesterday and lost a close match 5-4. The yardlings split in the singles matches with number one man captain Art Sherer out-stroking his opponent, number two man Carl Bostic winning in three sets and six man Bill Nolen also coming up with a victory...
...Nolen does not believe that Miss Kuhlman and many other faith healers are consciously dishonest. But he has no use for the psychic surgeons who "operate" in the Philippines, often on desperate patients who have spent plenty of money to get there. He watched several of these sleight-of-hand artists scratch their patients with deftly concealed mica flecks to give the impression that they had made incisions by sheer psychic energy. Nolen also discovered that the healers simulated blood with betel-nut juice, and quickly disposed of all tissues supposedly removed during their operations to prevent laboratory analysis...
Concealed Blob. Finally, Nolen, who had not revealed his identity, tested Filipino healers by undergoing surgery himself for high blood pressure. Before the operation began, he noticed his "surgeon" palming a reddish-yellow object. During the operation, he watched the psychic double up his hands so that it would look as if they were inside Nolen's body. Nolen, who knows a little anatomy, was not fooled: the surgeon's hands never even penetrated his skin. Nor was Nolen impressed by the results of the operation. The surgeon held up the blob he had been concealing...
Despite these discoveries, Healing is not an angry book. For one thing, Nolen recognizes that it is often doctors themselves who drive patients to the healers: "Some healers offer patients more warmth and compassion than physicians do." More important, Nolen acknowledges that, in some cases, the healers actually heal. Faith healers can and often do cure psychosomatic ailments. But they cannot cure organic illnesses. The problem is that the psychics as well as their patients frequently do not know the difference. Doctors do, or at least should. ∙Peter Stoler