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...country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village is Vaduz (pop. 1,715), the capital. None of the others shelters more than...
...Rhine and the Mind's Eye," an article in the Spring issue of the "American Scholar," he flays modern psychologists for refusing to take a more tolerant attitude towards extra-sensory-perception...
Approves Dr. Rhine...
More recently Dr. Rhine's Duke experiments come under his approving...
Factors which particularly interest him in the Rhine experiments are: 1) Very marked ESP capacity among children between four and thirteen 2) evidence of marked ability among various handicapped groups, notably the blind, and 3) evidence for high-scoring capacities among some psychotic groups at institutions...