The Strange Role of Dowsing in Medicine
A Vermont author recounts using a dowser to find water for a small Arlington shop, cites scientific debates on dowsing, and explores ESP connections. The piece notes water findings, long distance dowsing on maps, and Stanford ESP experiments, suggesting a future scientific basis for such phenomena.
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Shaftsbury
Route 7
Arlington
Harlan Miller
University of Vermont
Vermont
Rocard
Kenneth Roberts
Henry Gross
William A. Tiller
Stanford University
American Society of Dowsers
Tiller
I Want to Be Your Father Christmas Essay
A reflective New York piece on a parent’s Christmas dilemma. It weighs gift giving as a social and existential act, contrasts consumer culture with intimate longing, and ends with a daughter's plea to the father to be present and perhaps heroic. The narrator ponders objects opaque in servitude and the higher wish of connection.
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New York
Seh
United States
Ken Russell
Donne
Christ
Grace
Beethoven
Bobby Kennedy
Russell Baker
Leo Tolstoy
Mars
Carter Rabhan ties raise questions about donors and influence
A probe into Erwin Rabhan links to the Carter campaign reveals a pattern of influence and favors. Rabhan, a nursing home promoter, is accused of promoting ventures from the Georgia governor's mansion and financing schemes, with connections to officials, a lawyer from Carter's circle, and a controversial land sale under investigation.
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Carter
Erwin David Rabhan
Rabhan
New York Times
Nicholas Horrock
David Rabican
Georgia
Horrock
Mr. Rabhan
King
Atlanta
Lander Inc
Wesley Merritt
Lander
Atlanta Transit Authority
Justice Department
Robert Lipshutz
Jimmy Carter
Chuck Colson
White House
Teheran
Jimmy
Bert Lance
Rabican
FBI
Vermont stamps in 1937 hailed by Spargo chair
John Spargo of Old Bennington and the Ethan Allen Bicentennial Commission chair a push to issue a 1937 commemorative stamp for Vermont hero Ethan Allen. The effort would mark the second Vermont subject on a U.S. stamp, following Spargo’s 1927 two cent Green Mountain Boy issue.
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John Spargo
Old Bennington
Ethan Allen Bicentennial Commission
Vermont
Ethan Allen
U.S
Spargo
Battle of
Bennington
Eddington
ADV
Mae West
Stark Theatre
Mae
Paris
Hard loser Hebert criticizes seniority reform influence
In a farewell to Congress Representative F Edward Hebert says a minority of 152 of 435 House members control power and are swayed by Common Cause, which has no electoral mandate. Hebert notes his removal from the House Armed Services Committee and urges reform of the seniority system.
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U.S
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
House of Representatives
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Herbert Douglas
University of Paris
France
China
Today Show
Stanford Research Center
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John Leonard
N.Y
Times News Service
Washington
David Rabhan
Jeff Carter
Betty Rainwater
Daniel S. Scott
Lyons Street
Middlebury College
Memorial Gym
Albert E. Pope
United Egg Producers
Paul Rand Dixon
Federal Trade Commission
Mason Welling
Boston University
Fredrick Welling
North Bennington
Charles Foster
Nature Conservancy
Vermont Comprehensive Planning Conference
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Paul Boutin
Wilfred Hurley
George Salem
Gregory Salem
Daniel Pinsonneault
Richard Boutin
Michael Kilburn
Dennis Edson
Burr and Burton Seminary
Manchester
Bausch and Lamb
E.H. Henry
Saab
Scot Sport Motors
North Street
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