Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heads for a guru (Hindu wise man) as soon as she hits Calcutta, and they swap profundities. She: "How can one know the time?" He: "You cannot know until it has come." She: "The readiness is all? But I am ready." He: "Then you cannot have long to wait." This kind of talk is a bit heady for Liz and she experiences darshan, "a certain electro-magnetic flow...
...final products are judged by an impartial board, which this year consisted of Hans Heymann, University of Oregon; David Ginsburg, Weizmann Institute of Science, lsrael; and Bidyut Bhattacharyya, of the University of Calcutta...
...there, working among people afflicted with leprosy. He went home in 1930 and a little later was ordained an Anglican priest. He worked in a country parish, in a quietly rich London church and among the rough poor of London. He went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman, since he believed that he could not, as a priest, exhort others to fight. But many operations had left him weak. He fell sick again and went back to South...
...reader would send him a postcard. Fabio leaped on the idea. Two weeks later, his plea for postcards appeared in Milan's weekly Domenica del Corrieri. The response was immediate. Bundles of postcards began arriving from all over Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Others followed from Africa, Japan, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro and even Union City, N.J. Some days brought more than 1,000 cards. Some people sent money, chocolates; one offered him a job when he grows up; another offered a 15-day round trip to Salzburg. A battalion of the French Foreign Legion adopted him as mascot...
...times in the ensuing six years, the State Department's own Loyalty Security Board debated whether these meetings made Service guilty of disloyalty to the U.S. Six times Service was cleared. (For the sixth hearing, he was recalled while en route to be U.S. consul general in Calcutta.) Last week the Civil Service Commission's Loyalty Review Board, the capital's top loyalty panel, reversed the finding, decided there was a "reasonable doubt" of Service's loyalty, and recommended that he be fired...