Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judge Robert L. Myers of Phoenix ruled that the will was legitimate, ordered a hearing to find out whether anyone could properly qualify to carry out Kidd's wish. Last week, as the trial got under way in Phoenix, it was apparent that there was no lack of soul-searchers eager to undertake the task. No fewer than 17 organizations and 78 individuals had already put up the $15 filing fee and were prepared to stake their claims. Among them...
...Nora Higgins, 57, housewife and self-described clairvoyant from Branscomb, Calif., who maintains that the soul has no physical substance but consists of a hazy, tinted form resembling that of the body. At the hearing, she insisted that she had detected Kidd's soul in the courtroom, "pacing up and down with his hands behind his back, shaking his head at the proceedings...
...Another California housewife, Jean Bright, 48, of Encino, who claims to be in constant contact "through my entire nervous system" with a dentist friend who died two years ago. She asks the dentist's soul yes or no questions about the beyond, Mrs. Bright asserts, and it replies by causing her head either to nod or shake...
...William A. Dennis, 64, of Balboa, Calif., a geophysicist who contends that the soul is a center of cosmic vibrations. When the human body is alive, he says, vibrations from the soul give man the power to think and act. When the human body is dead, it is unable to accept or record these vibrations...
...Virat W. Ambudha, 51, a lieutenant colonel in the Thailand army and author of a book called Increasing Brain Power, who arrived from Bangkok on leave in February to fight his case, which he bases in part on the enigmatic contention that the soul is a "most wonderful, delicate, small thing...