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...faithful who worship at the 100 Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...
...small though significant Boston firm, the Beacon Press, frequently sets out "to take a beating" on a book which "deserves to be published," in the words of its editor Melvin Arnold. Sponsored by the American Unitarian Association, the house publishes no more than 20 cloth-bound books a year. But its influence far outweighs its size. "Specializing in public controversy," according to Arnold, the Beacon Press was founded in the nineteenth century to publish sermons, and it still prints "books that we feel should be published." Among the better known of its recent polemics were Paul Blanshard's attack...
...Tierra, one day in 1709, and prepared to take on fresh water. When the crew glimpsed flashing lights on the supposedly uninhabited island, an armed small boat was sent in to investigate. Awaiting the sailors on the beach, waving his arms and dancing, was an extraordinary figure "cloth'd in Goat-Skins, who look'd wilder than the first Owners of them. He had been [cast away] on the Island Four Years and four Months . . His name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch man ... He had so much forgotten his Language for want of Use, that we could scarce...
...goods and create jobs for India's huge army of unemployed (some 25 million, and growing in annual leaps of nearly 2,000,006) by building up cottage industries in the villages. Example: he would permit no expansion of textile mills, instead would double the output of handloom cloth...
...Until we have funds enough to provide sufficient classrooms . . . and obtain and keep enough competent classroom teachers," he said, "we should cut our specifications for less essential functions of our schools . . . Cut the cloth of our educational garment . . . Then perhaps the finances really needed for education will be within the reasonable hopes of attainment and our essential and immediate problems susceptible of solution." As Royall talked, the delegates buzzed with surprise. "The speech had value in that it will create almost unanimous dissent," snapped a member of the state committee later. Royall's thinking on education, said another...