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DIED. Nathan Pritikin, 69, health and fitness guru whose regimen of low- cholesterol diet and exercise attracted thousands of grateful disciples who claimed both weight loss and amelioration of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes symptoms; by his own hand while suffering from advanced leukemia; in Albany. Pritikin became a self-taught nutritionist after he was diagnosed as having heart disease at age 40. He promoted his diet plan, consisting mostly of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain breads, in $3,675 two-week programs at his longevity centers and through several books...
William F. Buckley Jr., seated in a leather easy chair and wielding a ball- point pen for emphasis, holds forth on an unlikely subject for a conservative guru: the techniques of celestial navigation. The Fonz (Henry Winkler) steps off his motorcycle for some straight talk to children about sexual abuse. "Somebody touching your private parts," he urges, "is a secret you don't keep!" Esther Williams, the aquatic screen star from the 1940s and '50s, dives back into the pool to show parents how to teach their infants to swim...
...Landers, 66, guru to the lovelorn, has concluded that despite all the talk of liberation, women have not changed much at all. According to a massive survey published in her daily column last week, almost three-quarters of the women in America would happily give up sexual intercourse for a little tenderness. That may sound like 1953, or maybe 1853, but Landers is convinced. Concludes the nation's most widely syndicated columnist (more than 1,000 papers): "Clearly, there's trouble in Paradise...
What made the assassination of the proud but vulnerable Mrs. Gandhi particularly pathetic was that it was committed by members of her bodyguard whom she had continued to trust against all warnings. The so-called disciples of India's revered Guru Nanak, contemptuously basking in foreign shelter in Western countries, have no reason for jubilation. I feel sad about the shame brought upon my Sikh countrymen by those traitors. They emptied their guns into someone who, with all her real or imagined power, was a small, frail old woman...
...influential teacher into his 90s. He passed on the playing style of the great 19th century French School to several of today's virtuosi, among them France's Jean-Pierre Rampal, who called Moyse "the king," and Ireland's James Galway, who claimed him as "my guru" in Brattleboro...