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ae 23 SKIDDOO Take the example of a certain fellow, bom on the 7th day of the 7th month of A sizable body of folklore has 1907. On his 70th birthday, 7/7/1977, accrued to the number 23--see, for F A instance, The 23 Phenomenon by he decided to gamble on his lucky Robert Anton Wilson (see Fortean "umber - seven. Times, 23:32). ; ( ‘es So he visited his local race track, and Usually, attention is focused upon its noticed with amazement that horse sinister aspect, but for Richard umber 7, in ey was aie te Connolly, a pub manager in Douglas, favourite to win, — ic ce tae ae Isle of Man, it is a lucky number. 7 pant. ep wa A. His recent 23rd birthday fell on 23 Buoyed by IS. SYNCAKONICICY, OWL September; so, at 23:23 hours that day _ friend placed $77 on horse number 7. he placed a bet of £23 on the number You guessed it, the horse came 7th! 23 on the roulette wheel at his favourite ' gambling place, the Palace Casino in WALTER CRONKITE'S UFO Douglas. He won £571. ABDUCTION? "I was staggered when the ball Walter Cronkite, grand old man of popped into 23," he said. He would the evening news and long time anchor- have won a lot more if he had had the man for CBS News, now finds himself conviction to resist hedging the bet by __ in the news, much against his will. splitting it between the numbers each Close friends of Cronkite admit that side. he has become a member of the space (Source: The Sun, 25 September 1992.) age with a bang! Waller, they say, has Here's how the veteran newsman described the event to a close friend. "I came to," he says, "stretched out on something like an examination table, in a round, metallic room, perhaps 20 feet across. I tried to move, but was unable to. Several beings surrounded me - humanoid, I would say, but fuzzy, indistinct. They seemed to be fading in and out. I couldn't see them clearly. It wasn't my vision, because everything else was clear. I was mainly conscious of large, searching eyes.” For the next couple of hours he said his mind was filled with events from his own past, and from many of the major news events he had covered over the years. “I think they were conjuring it all up and recording it in some way," Cronkite said. Walter's friend contin- ued with more bits and pieces of their conversation. 23 SKIDDOO WALTER CRONKITE'S UFO ABDUCTION? Walter Cronkite, grand old man of the evening news and long time anchor- man for CBS News, now finds himself in the news, much against his will. Close friends of Cronkite admit that he has become a member of the space age with a bang! Walter, they say, has had a close encounter of the third kind, that is, face to face with aliens. Waller told close friends that he was seated on his verandah with an aperitif, waiting for dinner. Suddenly the house and grounds were severely shaken. Cronkite felt himself passing out, and thought he was having a heart attack. "Every so often, I get a powerful urge to go of the air with statements to the effect that the aliens are peaceful, law- abiding beings, who only mean us well, and can be very beneficial to us. But I don't KNOW anything, and I'm resist- ing every effort to become an apologist or propagandist for them." “I'm in therapy. In the first place I want to know that I'm sane, and didn't The coincidental positioning of num- bers has long held superstitious or mys- tical meanings for mankind. Consider the number seven, the num- ber most people think of as a ‘lucky’ number. 52°NEXUS THE POWER OF NUMBERS - 7 FEBRUARY-MARCH '93