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...near the former Royal Palace, Premier Lon Nol raised the banner of the new republic: a square blue flag with a smaller red square in the upper left-hand corner overlaid with the three main towers of Angkor; in the right corner were three stars symbolizing honor and progress, Buddhism and the republic...
Pottetti says he has found other interests and that now he is busier than when he was running competitively. He has become somewhat absorbed in. Hunduism and Buddhism, but mainly the change in his life has been a new ability to appreciate other persons, he said...
...more profound. The Buddhists favor total U.S. withdrawal and disengagement from South Viet Nam. At the same time, they hope to persuade the Communists to stop shooting and negotiate with them for the formation of a "peace"-probably meaning coalition-government that would replace the Thieu regime. Since Buddhism commands at least the nominal allegiance of the vast majority of people in South Viet Nam, the Lotus Blossom politicians feel that they could outmaneuver the Communists in a coalition government...
Sculptor Neke Carson designed a combination fountain-environment that is beautiful to look at and fun to be in. Participants sit inside two large plastic bubbles and watch smaller plastic bubbles floating about in a trough of gurgling water. Ted Hallman, a Zen Buddhism enthusiast, used 100 lbs. of yarn for his African-looking hut. "My idea was to make an environment that was comfortable, soft, with neutral colors and a calming effect," he says. The hit of the show is Furniture Designer Wendell Castle's laminated oak "reclining space for one." Open a marvelously sculptured door and there...
...inaccurate diatribe against education, Mao said: "It is reported that penicillin was invented by a laundryman in a dyer's shop. Benjamin Franklin of America discovered electricity, although he began as a newspaper boy. Confucius got started at 23. What learning did Jesus have? Sākyamuni created Buddhism when he was 19. When Marx first created dialectical materialism, he was very young. He acquired his learning later." Mao's conclusion: "It is always those with less learning who overthrow those with more learning...