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...estimates for 1962 run to 1,000,000. "It's the thing to drink if you want to belong to the Oberen Zehntausend [upper ten thousand]," explained a Bonn bartender. Smart Italians ask for their "ooeesky" Us do (straight) or con ghiàccio (on the rocks), and hosts pour their guests hefty slugs in large glasses, which are then nursed for the rest of the evening...
Women with babies in their arms peered anxiously over the pit edge as workmen shoveled. At last the burial chamber was opened, and Disciple Wamana entered alone with gifts of flowers, fruit, coins, and ghi (melted butter) with which to massage the yogi. The crowd waited tensely. Wamana emerged alone, his face the color of ashes. The pit, he said, was hot as a furnace; Narayan thought it better not to come out until the following day. The crowd roared with disapproval, and Wamana went back to the pit. Soon he emerged again, this time to confess the truth. Narayan...
...there water buffalo were grazing. The Department of Public Works had built overnight a square platform of brick and cement, three feet high and twelve feet square. At the four corners were stumps of the sacred peepul tree. On the platform was half a ton of sandalwood, mixed with ghi (melted butter), incense, coconuts and camphor. Gandhi's body was raised to the pyre...
...Ramdas set fire to the ghi-soaked wood with the charcoal he had carried, smoldering, all the way from Birla House. Nehru, Patel, Governor General Earl Mountbatten and his Lady threw last rose petals on the pyre as the white smoke of sweet-smelling sandalwood rose against the scarlet evening sun. From nearly a million throats came the chant, half in mourning, half in triumph: "Mahatma Gandhi amar ho gae!"-"Mahatma Gandhi has become immortal...
Great Britain last week made two more demonstrations of Empire solidarity against Hitlerism. The first troops from India arrived in a British-held sector of the French front: an all-Moslem contingent of about 200 with their own cooks, water carriers, religious teachers, food-rice, turmeric, ginger, ghi (clarified butter). British supply officers set out to buy livestock, chiefly goats, for the Moslems to slaughter in their own pure...
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