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...world. For all its long history, it is also one of the most benighted. Tibet is one of the world's last theocracies: its culture centres about its religion, Lamaism, a form of Buddhism which was brought up from India through the Himalayan passes in the 7th Century. This hierarchical faith, with its priests, abbots, lamas (monks), hutukhtus ("Living Buddhas"), is headed by two infallible incarnations-the Panchen Lama, a spiritual teacher or "Buddha of Boundless Light," and the Dalai Lama, a temporal sovereign, the "Buddha of Mercy...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all instructors and members of the faculties and their wives at 17 Quincy Street on Sunday, January 7th, from four to six o'clock...
Then he left for Switzerland, dropping his tools in Stuttgart on the way. Being a worrier, however, he went back to Munich and entered the Bürgerbräu Keller (one of the best protected places in the world) several times in the night of the 7th to listen to the ticking...
...James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope, now First Lord of the Admiralty, is noted for his outspokenness, rashness, indiscretion. Once in 1915 he went straight from Flanders and without changing from his muddy kit appeared in the House of Lords to tell publicly just what was wrong with the ammunition supply system serving the troops in France and Belgium. Former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (now Earl Baldwin) called him "that good man Jim Stanhope" and took him under his political wing, but Lord Baldwin also saw to it that important statements made by Friend Jim (who was then First Commissioner...
...carnage is an innocent appearing expanse of smooth ice bounded by the usual sideboards, with screens at each end to protect spectators from flying pucks, sticks, and occasional severed limbs. But at two o'clock sharp, the tranqull ice is transformed into what resembles a subway rush in the 7th Avenue subway when a hundred or so shabbily dressed people with razor-like skates swarm over the boards-the Rainbow Division going over the top at Hill 22. After a general 15-minute melee, called "warm-up time", a whistle is blown and the first game is about to begin...