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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan .stands 6 ft. 3 in., and once weighed 220 Ibs. He has a martial beak of a nose and a clipped white beard. Though at 63 he is ailing, he used to look capable of tearing a bullock apart with his hands. For the past 30 years, Ghaffar Khan has practiced and preached nonviolence. He was Gandhi's chief convert among the Moslems, and in the rugged Khyber Pass region he is still known as "the Frontier Gandhi...
...pigeon from pitted grey pumice, uses polished quartzite for the silken feathers of a nesting woodcock, letting the shape of the stone suggest his forms. He chisels a fierce eagle, coldly eying the world, with a few simple curves; in his owls, a rough triangle of stone becomes a beak, a sharp shelf of rock becomes a wing jutting from a rounded body. Says O'Hanlon: "It's not that I'm crazy about birds particularly-I'm interested in all nature. I've just chosen the bird as a symbol. I'm really...
...Ducking red faces behind the ibis's ample beak, we recognize the unconstitutionality of repeal of the tidelands bill. However, where there are votes there is always a way, Since the states are using the money for education, federal educational grants-in-aid could be withheld from them. The court could even be asked to rule on federal taxation of the state-owned lands, seeing that intergovernmental tax immunity has been stretched in the past (cf. Graves vs. New York, 306 U.S. 466, 1939; also South Carolina vs. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 1905; etc.) All of which goes...
Many have remarked about the curious inability on the part of the Lampoon to picture the touching scene over Red Square. The Ibis, with the graceful arch of its beak thrust into the Moscow snow, would probably overlook the tomb of John Reed, a former Communist Lampoon editor and one of four men to be buried in the Kremlin...
Looking down from the U.S. Senate gallery, bird watchers often observe that Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse has a notably ornithic look-a sharp beak, darting, saucerish eyes, a tufted head. Since he became an independent last year, Senator Morse has been the busiest, noisiest jay in the Senate; he interrupts his chatter only to hop over to the press ticker to see what kind of coverage he's getting...