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Senator Hughes is probably Coe's most devoted convert. Hughes' long spiritual odyssey carried him from Alcoholics Anonymous and Methodist Sunday-school teaching to the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, a group of ministers and laymen who explore psychic phenomena. "I was looking for Christ," Hughes recalls. "I wanted miracles today. I wanted to believe in eternal life. My prayer life was constant, and I read the Scriptures, but what I was seeking I didn't find." Then in 1969 he met Coe, "a man who lived, believed and practiced the Scriptures. So, in prayer, Christ gradually came alive...
...requirements for a master's degree in physical education at Michigan State. His thesis was entitled "An Investigation into Associations Between Sexual Maturation, Physical Growth and Motor Proficiency in Males." What about his doctoral dissertation? Somewhat mysteriously, he describes it as "a longitudinal investigation" into the "same phenomena" treated in his master's thesis...
...that their heroes were also afflicted with nostalgia, that Houdini himself had borrowed his name from an earlier performer, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, a 19th century French prestidigitator. Moreover, as the magicians should have known, scientists are the easiest to fool. They seek rational explanations for contrived phenomena, connections where none exist. Magicians were in fact doing what they had always persuaded their audiences to do: they were looking the wrong way. "We magicians are notorious for staring in the rear-view mirror," says Semipro Charles Reynolds, picture editor of Popular Photography. "As I figure...
Like American pizza and French drugstores, the form and flavor of cultural phenomena often change in the translation from one country to another. So it would seem with television. Recently a pair of TV series have appeared, one in West Germany, the other in England, that present, in effect, foreign versions of two well-known American television families...
...colloquia would concentrate on themes or phenomena common in a variety of historical periods--such as "revolution" or "industrialization"--rather than on a specific era, Thomas J. Kimmell '74-3, a member of the committee, said yesterday...