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...Japan. After 50 minutes' unsuccessful search for his target, Major Sweeney asked a naval ordnance observer, Commander Frederick L. Ashworth of Wenham, Mass., what he should do. Try Nagasaki, said Commander Ashworth. With just enough fuel left for a single bomb run, the navigator, Captain James F. Van Pelt Jr. of Oak Hill, W. Va., hit Nagasaki exactly "on the nose." The bombardier, Captain Kermit K. Beaham of Houston, saw a hole in the clouds...
...music-hall show three years ago. Slater, Diana charged, had not only hypnotized her in the course of his act as he intended, but sent her home in a psychological depression that lasted almost three years. It took, she said, 23 visits to Australian-born Dr. Sydney Van Pelt, president of the British Society of Medical Hypnotists and avowed foe of stage hypnotism, to dehypnotize...
...case and the dapper vaudevillian took over his own defense. Testifying for himself, he said he had hypnotized 25,000 people, and earned up to $15,000 a week doing it, without ever having had such a complaint before. Then, as his own lawyer, he asked Dr. Van Pelt: Is it not true that an anxiety neurosis such as Diana's could have come from an unhappy love affair? It could be, began Van Pelt, but at that point Justice Croom-Johnson chose to interrupt. "A typical example of anxiety neurosis," he remarked, "is the anxiety of the plaintiff...
Whipple says that man will be faced with a rain of meteorites that will constantly pelt the space station. The great majority of them will be smaller than a grain of sand. Large ones would be very rare, but meteorites range in size up to "flying mountains...
Full of Beans. After a year of working with the King and his contagiously optimistic ministers, even some of the pessimistic foreigners in Libya have become more hopeful. "There's a chance for real democracy here," says Pelt. "I think they can make a go of it-the Libyans are full of beans and ready to try." Actually, in independence the Libyans will be getting more outside help and guidance than they got as a colony. The British, who hope to be Libya's big brother, have provided scores of civil servants to staff the government, are putting...