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...from the Gita read to him. He also called for his favorite hymn (by British Author Isaac Watts): When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Each day he was massaged and cared for as tenderly as an incubator baby. Around his scrawny shoulders was a red and black checked homespun blanket. On the wall of his small, high-ceilinged room in the Aga Khan's gruesomely Victorian Palace in Poona was a Hindu calendar with the motto: "O Lord...
...been spectacular in terms of costs: close to $2,000,000 of hard Sterling cash went into Latin American advertising last year, using up perhaps 30% of its Good Neighbor gross. Other costs have skyrocketed too: e.g., 2,000 employes, many of them meticulously trained in the U.S., now blanket the field...
...Dear Carter: . . . We have a little Indian news lately. Capt. Rains, 7th Infantry, placed a shell on an Indian trail and covered it with a shirt. An Indian came and removed the shirt when the shell exploded and wounded him severely. Capt. Rains then put four shells in a blanket and placed them on another trail. The Indians discovered and resolved to catch him in his own trap. So they collected their warriors to the number of 85 or 90 and surrounded the spot; they then by means of a cord exploded the shell. Down goes Capt. Rains with...
...played guitars and, if they noticed the sky at all, they were reminded of the lemon groves in Sicily. They were stubborn poets." More deeply glowing than the sky above the factory was the inherited canopy of Catholicism. "Their Catholicism, like their lives, was enveloped in a heavy blanket of fatalism. . . . There might be a great deal of noisy emotionalism among my relatives over a misfortune . . . but eventually it was laid on the doorstep of Destiny. 'E tu -Destino!' That single phrase explained everything...
...expanded Social Security program which would 1) blanket the 30,000,000 farmers, farm hands, domestic workers and others not now eligible for old-age and survivors' insurance; 2) add such benefits as hospital payments, maternity and burial insurance...