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Bearded, robed and barefoot, Krishna Venta (real name: Francis Heindswatzer Pencovic) stood before his Seattle audience and, with modest mien, announced that he was Christ returned to earth. As leader of the W.K.F.L. (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, Love) Fountain of the World, Krishna went on: "It is true, children, I have served time for committing that bad check . . . that I . . . was convicted for a so-called burglary . . .'' Many in the audience wept; some doubted. One challenged: "Are you the embodiment of Christ?" Replied Krishna: "I cannot lie to you to please you. I must tell the truth...
...prediction, oratorical in many areas of the South, has to be taken with seriousness in Vulcan's city. Reason: in the last decade, by minimal count of Birmingham's white newspapers, there have already been 22 dynamite bombings and four arson burnings at tributable to race tensions. Fountain Heights and North Smithfield, where Negroes, with a go-ahead from federal courts, began moving in nine years ago to break the city's segregated housing patterns, are now known as "Dynamite Hill." The $18,000 home of the Negro woman who had won the lawsuit was torn...
...find Joy Buzzers, Trick Squirt Badges, Rubber Hunting Knives, Soap Cigars, Soap Pickles and Soap Chocolates, Exploding Fountain Pens, Plate Palpitators, and Shoe Squeakers. There are Imitation Gold Teeth, Cuckoo Clothes Brushes, Rubber Swollen Thumbs, Bunged Up Eyes and Joke Teeth and Tongues. There are, of course, Itching Powders, Jumping Fleas, Crying Towels and Whoopee Cushions. There is soap that turns your face black, soap that is rubber, cheese that is soap, and cigars that are cheese. There are Snake Candy and Jam Jars. There are Shimmy Inspector Badges. There are Exploding Cigar Boxes, Agitating Match Boxes, and Chameleon Dice...
...courtyard deathwatch. United Press International rented a room on the square and dickered with a nun for the use of her telephone; the Associated Press signed up a village butcher's phone; reporters lounged in their cars or on cots and sleeping bags, drinking Cokes, shaving in the fountain. Rome's Italia news agency, mistaking a fluttering Gandolfo curtain for a prearranged, prepaid signal of the Pope's passing, flashed the news-16 hours premature-that the Pope was dead, and four Rome papers rushed out with erroneous extras...
...Academy), then went by bus to see the new Reynolds building in full scale. Even with the three-story office building's satiny aluminum trim, Virginians found much that was familiar. The courtyard was paved with familiar red brick, and the moon shone down on a five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found 14-ft.-high executive offices with cherry-paneled walls on which hung such moderns as Picasso and Clyfford Still. On the east and west facades were 880 huge aluminum louvers geared by a master clock to foil...