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Private Enterprise. In Fort Myers, Fla., Walter N. Ash explained why he had stolen a $2 steak: he was going into the restaurant business...
...Lent. On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a woman and a little girl were stopped by the traffic at a cross street. On the opposite curb stood a young man with an Ash Wednesday mark on his forehead. "Look," said the little girl. "Mustn't point," said the woman. "But mother," asked the little girl, "why has he got that black mark on his forehead?" "Hush," said her mother. "It's something they do in church, I think...
...only indications as to its where-abouts during the time it was lost were a speedometer reading which showed a 32-mile trip, and a lipaticked cigarette buit in the ash tray. Cambridge police had previously predicted that the car would come back unharmed...
...times to the great popular Hindu festivals, sternly condemned the orgiastic frenzy and the exhibitions of extreme asceticism. Now, however, Gandhi belonged not only to the ages but to the people, and India celebrated his last rites in its own un-Gandhian fashion. At water's edge, the ash-laden urn was transferred to the white (for mourning) superstructure of an army "duck." With eight other ducks, it churned noisily into the river, while army planes swooped overhead, dropping flowers on the cortege. On the shore, army guns boomed a salute of 79 salvos for Gandhi...
Until 4 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, stocky (5 ft. 8 in.), moderate-drinking (scotch) Alton Ochsner, a bouncing 51, carried out his carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...