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Hitting His Peak. Counsilman's counsel paid off. "I think the guys on the team liked me right away," says Mark, "and they avoided talking about the Olympics." Mark moved into a dormitory with George Smith, another Olympian, pledged Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, earned A's for attitude as well as in his studies. "It was just a matter of growing up," says Counsilman. "College has given him the chance to mingle with contemporaries for the first time, and he has turned out to be one of the most popular guys on the team...
Seances and Psi. Stockwood is not the only Anglican clergyman to dabble in telepathy, seances and other "psi" phenomena. He happens to be vice president of a group called the Churches Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, whose patrons include 20 bishops of the Anglican Communion. One of the fellowship's basic concerns is with what it considers a "highly agnostic" trend: the diminution of belief in the traditional Christian doctrine of life after death. Not only does such skepticism deny comfort to the kin of the dead, says the fellowship, but it raises profound questions about "what...
...undying confidence of psychic researchers are currently visible in a new book of ESP and PK studies called Parapsychology Today (Citadel Press; $6.00). The volume's 22 essays are short on ghostly tales of otherworldly communications, long on dry data of laboratory probing. But they show how sophisticated psi tests have become since Rhine first took up parapsychology some four decades...
...classic experiments were simple tests conducted with dice and psi cards (which are marked, unlike ordinary decks, with circles, squares, crosses, stars and wavy lines). Rhine determined psychic ability by letting subjects guess the fall of the dice or the order of the cards. If they did better than could be expected under the laws of chance, they were assumed to be psi-hitting; if they did worse, they were psi-missing...
Exterminate or Prostitute? College Negroes nonetheless feel schizophrenic about their climb out of the ghettos into the white world. Somewhat bitterly, a member of Northwestern's new Kappa Alpha Psi Negro fraternity concedes that his goals are "pretty honkie-oriented-the corporation game, suburbia, upper middle-the works." At Wisconsin, Junior Clarence Brown takes a calmer view. "To better yourself is the first thing," he says. "Then you may be able to help others some day." But Graduate Student Brown McGhee scoffs: "Let me tell you how it is, baby. When I get out, I have two choices...