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...boxing. NBC even has one called Drivel-make that Dribble-to-basketball fans. (CBS, of course, is already jumping for the hoops with The White Shadow.) Eight pilots are based on movies. Among them: Breaking Away, Foul Play, The Goodbye Girl, Between the Lines and Freebie and the Bean. The flick series include Semi-Tough, The Main Event (also in the sport grouping) and Flamingo Road, which is taken from a steamy 1949 Joan Crawford melodrama...
...Tofu, or bean curd, a custard-like cake made from curdled soybean milk, was a favorite of Taoist priests in ancient China. Now Americans are learning to use the nearly tasteless curd (flavoring must be added) to replace cheese in cheesecake and meat in burgers. A 4-oz. serving of tofu has nearly as much protein as an equal amount of hamburger but fewer calories (150 vs. 237) and no cholesterol. At 99? per lb., it is also cheaper. One large supplier, the New England Soy Dairy, Inc. of Greenfield, Mass., peddled 300 to 500 lbs. of curd a week...
...J.M.W. Bean, chairman of the history department at Columbia regards Yerushalmi's appointment as "an enormous asset and a tremendous addition to our resources." The center's present director, Marvin I. Herzog, added that individual," and his appointment is widely acclaimed at the university...
...grandchildren. He is said to have a weak heart, has suffered from a form of undulant fever and can work for only a few hours a day. Still he performs the devout Muslim's daily ritual of prayer without visible effort. He subsists on a sparse diet of rice, bean curd, yogurt and raw onions, supplemented now and then by a slice of melon or a bit of mutton. There are some signs that power has begun to intoxicate him. He has admitted enjoying the adulation of the crowds, and he took personal command of the government, though...
...Californian who turned her sadhana into a course on "inner environments," opportunity. As reckoned by the Hindus and Gore Vidal, this dark, chaotic age of Kali seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus. "Karma," writes Mehta, "is now felt as a sort of vibration and Krishna is a doe-eyed pinup...