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...trail only the Americans and the Russians as a purveyor of the military hardware to the world, have been imploring the Belgians to consider their historical links with France. They reportedly have assured the Dutch that if they buy the Mirage, Paris will help clean the polluted Rhine and increase purchases of food products from The Netherlands. As in the past, the French have been raising the bogey of American dominance, arguing that if the YF-16 or YF-17 is chosen, Europe's aerospace industry may die. Certainly France's aircraft industry (employing 107,000 workers...
...swaggering 29-year-old lieutenant colonel, he swept his 37th Tank Battalion through Normandy, sealing off the peninsula in the eleven days after Dday. In his dramatic breakthrough to relieve Bastogne and his near legendary dash across the Rhine, "Abe" Abrams terrified the enemy as a daring tactician who relied on swift movement and overpowering violence. He believed in the shock value of mass attack combined with an awesome firepower that approached overkill. A captured German document said, somewhat hysterically, that Abrams' forces were totally made up of men who had been born out of wedlock or killed their...
...parapsychological equivalent of the famous case of the painted mice at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute (TIME, April 29 et seq.), Walter J. Levy Jr., 26, the bright, recently appointed director of Rhine's institute, resigned after admitting that he had falsified experimental data...
...Rhine, who pioneered E.S.P. (extrasensory perception) research in the 1930s, has long recognized the need for sophisticated techniques, including the use of computers, to collect reliable data on psychic phenomena. Levy, a medical student who began working at the institute during his summer vacation in 1969, showed an unusual talent for automating experiments and recording data. After Levy graduated from the Medical College of Georgia last year, Rhine hired him as a full-time researcher; soon he was promoted to director...
Issue of Fraud. The three reported to Rhine, who confronted Levy. He confessed and resigned, later telling friends that he had been under great pressure to produce positive results and had been overburdened by administrative duties. He insisted that this was the only time he had falsified data; after failing to reproduce earlier positive tests, he had felt a need to force the data to reflect the results he expected. Following the disclosure, Rhine set other staff members to work, checking the more important of Levy's earlier findings, and cautioned other psychic researchers not to rely on these...