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Relying on the fact that drugs can usually restore even children with severe leukemia to a normal-appearing blood pattern for a while, a Harvard University research team at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital tried yet another approach. They took bone marrow from the patients during such remissions, deep-froze it until all drugs had ceased to work, then gave the children 600 r. of X rays and a prompt reinjection of their own marrow. In the New England Journal of Medicine the doctors report that one case was a clear failure; the second child died, but with...
Christ cursed a fig tree, and in a matter of hours, says the Gospel of Mark (11:20), it was "dried up from the roots." The Rev. Franklin Loehr and his Religious Research Foundation in Los Angeles do not claim such dramatic results, but they are off to a flying start, as reported in a new book (Doubleday; $3.50) titled The Power of Prayer on Plants...
Presbyterian Loehr, 45, was trained as a chemist at Illinois' Monmouth College before he turned to the ministry and "religious research." When he heard six years ago that Duke University's famed extrasensory perceptionist, Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, was testing the effect of prayer on plants, Loehr and his associates bought two sealed jars of water, prayed hard over one, ignored the other, and used them to water two equal sets of seeds, planted under identical conditions. Two weeks later the prayed-over water had produced seven seedlings, the ordinary water only three. "It looked as though...
After more than 700 experiments conducted by about 150 people on 27,000-odd seeds and seedlings, concludes Experimenter Loehr, "our research has shown . . . that prayer can make a difference in the speed of seed germination and in the rate and vigor of plant growth. This in turn demonstrates two things: 1) that prayer is fact, and 2) that scientific laboratory research can be done in basic religious fields...
...firm's first "glamour" underwriting came in 1952, when Venture Capitalist Laurance Rockefeller chose it to help market the stock of his Marquardt Aircraft. Another opportunity came when Unterberg, Towbin became interested in American Research & Development Corp., a venture capital firm that had invested in a number of exciting looking companies but was having trouble getting market recognition. The partners decided to help by making a market for the stocks, acquired an inventory of shares to trade. Because there was a public market in their securities, companies such as Air borne Instruments, Machlett Laboratories and Midwestern Instruments found that...