Word: brahmanic
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...useful handbook for any newspaperman who wants to spice a story with a few superlatives. Last week the second U.S. edition was rolling off the presses with the latest answers to unlikely questions: the world's mustache champ, says the new Guinness, is Masudiya Din. a Bombay Brahman who sports 6 ft. 4 in. of lip adornment ;* the fecund female was the wife of Russia's Fedor Vassilet, who bore him 69 children-16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, four sets of quads-in the 19th century...
...wife by his malevolent cousin Devadatta, the visions of seminude sorceresses who tempt him to turn from the way of the spirit. There are also human sacrifices, torture, man-trampling elephants, death plunges, demons, ghosts and imps. Beyond that, the film will have sets appeal too: towering Brahman temples, 900-ft. wooden bridges, a stupendous, four-armed 84-ft. statue of the god Indra...
Died. Govind Ballabh Pant, 73, Home Minister of India since 1955 and a wise, wily veteran of the ruling Congress Party who ranked second only to Nehru; of a stroke; in New Delhi. A broad-shouldered six-footer with sad eyes and a snow white walrus mustache, Brahman Pant was headed for a brilliant legal career when he joined Gandhi's independence movement in the '20s. He was jailed by the British three times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head...
Since devout Hindus refuse to kill aging cows, thousands are turned loose to wander through villages and towns, exercising their uncontested right to root in any garden. In Calcutta, great humped Brahman bulls still stalk majestically across streets, bringing traffic to a screeching halt as they nose in a vegetable dealer's baskets. In some smaller cities, humble people may still be seen following cows to catch and sip the animals' urine in the belief that it surpasses in potency all other means of purifying soul and body. Hindu businessmen support old cows' homes more readily than...
Cows & Calories. After ten years' incessant government educational work, religious and social resistance to rural advance has been reduced. Though Parbhu Dayal, for example, is a good Brahman who would never knowingly take the life of any animal, he welcomes government agents who arrive to poison rats and to spray insecticides in his fields. Another Punjabi farmer, Kartar Singh, 26, grudgingly admitted that his brother from New Delhi had added 20% to last year's wheat harvest by spreading rat poison around the farm during one of his visits...