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Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.)* The House of Flying Objects is based on the strange happenings in the house of James M. Herrmann of Seaford, L.I., where eight months ago lamps, bottles and furniture apparently flew through the air with the greatest of ease (TIME, March 17). The script leaves the solution to the mystery right up in the air along with all the household effects...
...them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17. Last week a modern poltergeist seemed to be loose in a pious Roman Catholic household at Seaford, N.Y. Skeptics, of course, said it was not a geist at all, polter or otherwise, but their alternative theories lacked concrete evidence...
...woodwork, and a bookcase containing a 25-volume encyclopedia with an overall weight of some 75 Ibs. turned upside down. Detective Joseph Tozzi of the Nassau County police accumulated a briefcase full of notes but no solution. A technical specialist from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Robert E. Zider, went to Seaford with a dowsing rod and a theory that water beneath the Herrmanns' house was unsettling things with a freak magnetic field. From Duke University came Dr. J. Gaither Pratt, psychologist and expert on extrasensory perception...
...Daily News marveled at the "almost uncanny accuracy" with which the News's Astrologist Marion Drew, as long ago as December, had prophesied that "MacArthur would encounter strong criticism in March and April." But after all the dailies had had first crack at the story, the weekly Seaford (Del.) Leader-News topped them all with the message...
...rushed and jolted eastward through Kew Gardens, Jamaica, St. Albans, Valley Stream, the boringly familiar, dirty, rickety commuters' run-always unpleasant, usually late and hopelessly snarled in rush hours and bad weather. No. 175 rushed and jolted westward-through Lindenhurst, Amityville, Seaford, Freeport-and pulled into Rockville Centre...