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March 14, 1959

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fiction

Defender of the Faith

Philip Roth

What does one Jewish soldier owe to another?

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Looking Into Psi.

Kevin Wallace

REPORTER AT LARGE about the American Society for Psychical Research & about all kinds of psychic phenomena (the term "psi" covers them all). Account of the…

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