Medicine: Anyone for Telepathy?

Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, professor of psychology at Duke University and head of its Parapsychology Laboratory, faced newsmen in his campus office last week and told them the story of the homing cat. A family moving 1.500 miles from California to Oklahoma had left behind its pet cat, which had never been out of its home state. Many long months later, guided by some occult power, the cat had turned up at the family's new home.' How could he be sure that this was the same cat? Easy: the animal had a deformed hip. said Dr. Rhine, and he had...

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