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...supported the nuclear test agreement reluctantly. He was the country's leading enthusiast for the delusion that there could be civil defense against nuclear war. He was for U.S. intervention in the Congo, where the Rockefellers have extensive interests and as late as March 19, 1967, he was fervent in his support of Johnson in Vietnam...
Some members seemed to hope that the Mother had so infused herself with the divine that she had achieved the gift that Aurobindo predicted for the spiritualized beings of the future: bodily immortality. Even as Mira grew feeble during the past year, fervent followers argued that she was regenerating her aging cells. But Aurobindo had been prepared for her death. When his tomb was being built, he ordered an extra vault for Mira, next to his own. Last week the Mother finally joined...
...album That's Enough For Me rest on an implicit assumption that an effective 1973 folksinger must cast his visions in a rock context, resurrecting even fifties rock as a kind of new folk music. The length and number of standing ovations Yarrow received Sunday--especially the fervent sing-along he started was a bluesy version of Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"--suggests he is right...
Pretext Removed. Even the quid pro quo explanation did not satisfy the fedayeen. Understandably. At the same time that their major Arab enemy was tendering an olive branch, one of their most fervent supporters was getting tough. Syria last week curtailed many fedayeen activities within its borders, including some guerrilla training-camp operations; it also closed down a propaganda radio station and confiscated an issue of an official newspaper published by the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...their families have been seeking help from every direction. Besides continuing to confer with their original attorney, Daniel Schultz of Washington, D.C., they have also been in touch with two others: Thomas Clifford, the U.S. public defender in Connecticut, and Ellis Rubin, a flamboyant Miami lawyer known for his fervent espousal of Cuban-refugee causes as well as his many losing races for local public office...