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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mice. Parapsychology, in fact, is international. In Britain, Mathematician S. G. Soal has long toyed with basic ESP phenomena.* A respected French biologist, who carries out his parapsychological research under the pseudonym "Andrew Robinson" to avoid professional ridicule, recently claimed that his complicated electronic rigs suggest the possibility of communication between men and mice. Even Russia has its psychic expert: Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev of the University of Leningrad, whose Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche has become a bestseller in the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Mind Over Matter--Maybe | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...them was less than 6 ft. 4 in.," Haywood says of his brothers. "I can't remember not playing basketball. If you didn't play, you got beat up." At 15, Haywood went to live with relatives in Detroit, where he came under the tutelage of Will Robinson, coach of Pershing High, who has since become his legal guardian. After leading Pershing to the state championship in his senior year, Haywood received more than 300 offers of college scholarships. He enrolled at Trinidad State but, after the Olympics, returned home to play for Detroit, where he can also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Boy from Trinidad Junior | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...these reasons, we urge both the acceptance of the HPC resolution and a continuing discussion of the larger political and moral issues, as presented, for example, by SDS. Timothy Gould '68-4 Kay Tolbert '69 Lynne Gerson '69 Joe Blatt '70 Michael D. Robinson '71 Jay S. Epstein '69 Stephen J. Rapp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HPC MEMBERS ON ROTC | 12/3/1968 | See Source »

...planet Venus from Tahiti; to map coasts and islands; to collect and classify strange flora and fauna; to search for a naval base for the coming war with the American colonies, Spain and France. Manned and equipped for all this, the little ship resembled the Swiss Family Robinson afloat. It was stuffed to the gunwales with pigs and goats (for eating), cats and parrots (to break the monotony), even a hunting greyhound named Lady who was used to chase down rare specimens of game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Human Endeavor | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...father figure, however, was far from a permissive Robinson. Cook, a brilliant, self-taught naval officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Human Endeavor | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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