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...questionable connections of many psychic researchers, in addition to the paucity of objectively verifiable results in their work, has made it difficult to raise funds for research; parapsychologists barely squeak by with money from a few foundations and gifts and encouragement from occasional philanthropists like Stewart Mott and Manhattan Realtor John Tishman. There is only one academic chair on parapsychology in the U.S., at the University of Virginia. Should the findings prove depressingly negative, it is unlikely that academies or foundations would encourage more chairs, or promote further psychic investigations...
...boost to Harvard's title stock. "It was really emotionally draining to go on four and one-half hours against Columbia and pull it out with a 5-4 win in the last bout," White said. "To win big today is very pleasing. Now if we can squeak by next week against Yale...
...last we've started winning some of the 'squeak-through' meets," jubilant captain Eugene White said, referring to last year's winless Ivy campaign and last week's 14-13 losing effort at Cornell...
...merely brazen. Instead of throwing herself into the proceedings, Carol seems to expend her energy with utmost calculation. Apart from a couple of production numbers, she remains almost stationary and is offstage altogether for the strenuous tap-dance sequences. Even her vocal tricks - going from bass through squeak in breathtaking spoken roulades - now sound like a ventriloquist...
...wall, 14-track tape loops piling and swishing inside their moon-shaped Plexiglas boxes, running across the heads like sepia fettucine. Every second, millions of impulses skitter down the cables, linking the Real-world beneath the podium to the Magic Kingdom: the Bear Jamboree plunks and toots, holographic phantoms squeak and gibber among the cobwebs of the Haunted Mansion, and in the antechamber of the Moon Rocket in Tomorrowland, a robot scientist holds a conversation with a scarcely less robotic Disney World hostess...