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Psychologist Pratt had a calming effect on the poltergeist-or perhaps on young Jimmy. For Jimmy had been present at most of the mysterious happenings and, as Dr. Pratt pointed out, poltergeist phenomena are commonly associated with adolescents. At any rate, no sooner had Dr. Pratt returned to Duke when back came the poltergeist...
...explain such phenomena, meteorologists are counting heavily on earth satellites that will keep a weather eye on all the doings of the atmosphere. The Russians have not told whether they got meteorological information from their Sputniks, but next spring U.S. satellites will carry into space at least two weather instruments. A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. Verner E. Suomi, is fashioning metal spheres two inches in diameter that will be carried by a satellite to measure radiation from both the sun and the earth. The U.S. Army Signal Corps is preparing a special photoelectric...
...usual, investigators were quick to point out that there were many other reasonable explanations for the phenomena: ball lightning, the brilliance of Venus, now entering its brightest period, the breathtaking vision of the northern lights, and, with Sputniks 1 and 11 spinning aloft, the tendency of some imaginative people to go the Russians one better. Sighed the Air Force last week: in ten years, investigators have tabulated about 5,700 "sightings," accounted for all but 2% as being strictly natural, in an earthling sense...
...hard-boiled and whimsical. He was brutal and tender, so I was told. From shop girl to 'sassiety queen,' they all seemed to develop certain tendencies in his presence. What may have resulted, deponent sayeth not. About some things 'Gene was Spinx-like. All I can report are the phenomena." --Weaver
...that developed into a theme: the U.S. in this midsummer is on the move, bag, baggage and children. Correspondent Charles Mohr, driving crosscountry from San Francisco to his new assignment in the Washington bureau, tuned in a sharp traveler's-eye view. Mohr noted, in addition to such phenomena as foam-rubber hats and rock-'n'-roll-loving Indians, that the new state turnpikes are working a special kind of havoc on a special kind of citizen. Reported Mohr: "I heard one traveler remark on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as he gratefully approached Pittsburgh, 'This...