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...University established the Center in November, 1965, under a $7.2-million bequest from the estate of Annielouise Bliss Warren, widow of Charles Warren '89, member of the Board of Overseers and a distinguished lawyer and legal historian. According to the Center's director, Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, the history department had been considering such a project for a number of years before the gift was made...
...McCartney's girl friend and George Harrison's sister-in-law-as they take private meditation sessions with His Holiness on his rooftop porch, or sit down to vegetarian meals in the communal dining room. Just how much longer they will stay to enjoy such back-water bliss is uncertain. Though the course lasts for three months and confers on those who complete it a sort of guru status of their own, the Beatles' manager hinted last week that they will leave in three weeks. These days, even holy men have their dropouts...
...that Stuart Saunders last week relaxed his customary aggressiveness. "I have heard it said that a long courtship makes for a happy marriage," said Saunders, as he looked back over the years of fuss and frustration, "and I hope that it is true, for it will surely mean eternal bliss for the Penn Central." Bliss, perhaps. But with Saunders running things, certainly not tranquillity. Honoring Saunders last week with its annual Benjamin Franklin award, Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club summed up the situation pretty well. "When Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia," said a society spokesman at the presentation ceremonies...
...Once this 'bliss consciousness' has been reached and the mind is free to wander in and out of it, there is no reason for any more suffering," the Guru said. True happiness and "harmony with the cosmic law of nature" are attained, and the stress and strain of Western civilization will be relieved, he added...
...much domestic bliss would be hard on any man. For Sergio Masini, first violinist in a Roman symphony orchestra, it is literally a labor of love: he adores all three of his families and is scrupulously fair to each. Giulia (Renee Longarini) is his legal wife; Adela (Maria Grazia Carmassi), a onetime opera singer, became his mistress when he began to console her for her cracking voice; and Marisa (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young country girl who fell in love with him at a concert and followed him to Rome. Each of them gets nine phone calls a day from...