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Modern Hinduism claims to include all other beliefs and practices, from crude animism to the most exalted metaphysical speculation. On this vast spiritual menu the individual Hindu can choose the divine nourishment he likes best, and it is all equally nutritious-provided that he swallows it seriously enough. And, suggest the Hindus, since Christian practice (if not Christian theology) is on the Hindu bill of fare, it is wrong for Western evangelists to urge converts to leave Hinduism in order to become Christians...
...freshman's mind then; the varsity had trounced Yale, 17 to 0; Smith Halls had captured the interdormitory football crown; and the city of Cambridge was doing its best to prevent the College from seeing the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "Fiesta," which was reported to be "crude, immoral, and unfit for production." Three policemen were sent to observe the play and report on its fitnss, and all agreed that it was much too harmful to the citizenry to be produced; the three "experts" ordered that it be closed. Another annoyance, an influenza epidemic, drifted into Cambridge...
...plant, finally perfected a process that promised some day to supply gasoline competitively to the West Coast. But when Congress last year refused to allocate more money, the plant was shut down. Board Chairman Reese Taylor of Union, which has little production of cheap foreign oil and faces rising crude costs in California, decided to see what could be done with oil shale as a hedge against the future...
...such retorts, commercial production would be at least 20,000 bbl. a day. But that goal is five years off, warned Union President Albert C. Rubel. In arid Colorado, a big problem for industry is water. Though Union's experimental retort needs no water, the waxy shale crude does not flow well in a pipeline unless carried along by water, and the nearest source is the Colorado River 15 miles away. Even more important, Rubel thinks a profitable shale industry can never really roll without the 27½% depletion allowance now given to liquid-crude oilmen. At present, shalemen...
...generally seems to be of the kind that takes place between guys and dolls. The organizer, for instance, spends most of his time snuffling after his sexy young wife (Gia Scala) in an unpleasantly vulgar manner. The patronizing assumption seems to be that working people are always crude, and that leads to the soupy conclusion that crudity is therefore a virtue...