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Presbyterian Loehr, 45, was trained as a chemist at Illinois' Monmouth College before he turned to the ministry and "religious research." When he heard six years ago that Duke University's famed extrasensory perceptionist, Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, was testing the effect of prayer on plants, Loehr and his associates bought two sealed jars of water, prayed hard over one, ignored the other, and used them to water two equal sets of seeds, planted under identical conditions. Two weeks later the prayed-over water had produced seven seedlings, the ordinary water only three. "It looked as though...
...more. The top of it darkened and withered and it remained in the stunted, non-growing condition. No more seedlings appeared on the negated side, though we held the experiment open for 20 days before digging, photographing and measuring each seed. Later one of the mathematicians on Dr. Rhine's staff at Duke University did a quick computation of the probability factor of this experiment. It came out over...
...Like Dr. Rhine in his work on extrasensory perception, Researcher Loehr found that some people are better at it than others. One woman scored slightly lower than average in praying her seedlings up, but when she tried "negative prayer," the seedlings showed hardly any life at all. "She was rather shaken by the experience," writes Loehr, "but I am keeping her name and address on file. The time may come when those with effective prayer-negation power will be sought again for their healing help." How does one go about praying negatively? One experimenter resorted to calling her seedlings Communists...
...Cavaliers who fought for Charles I were gay, glamorous and morally unreliable. Charles Stuart was a double-dealing, handsome monarch, stoutly abetted by busy little Queen Henrietta Maria, who bore the lively title (created by herself) of "Her She Majesty Generalissima." Their outstanding general, Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Charles' nephew), combined style and audacity with grim efficiency. Parliamentarians denounced him as an ingrate; Royalists hailed him as ingenious, and his white dog was popularly ranked "Sergeant-Major-General Boy." Thus the Cavaliers held until the war's end a virtual monopoly of high spirits and colorful loyalty...
...from the same building, Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt directed the Wehrmacht's withdrawal from France in World War II. Last week in the salon of the Kurhaus, France's Charles de Gaulle, who fought the Germans in both wars, raised a glass of good Rhine wine and toasted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a "great man, a great European and a great German...