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Moon does not fit the standard image of the guru out of the East. At 53, he is, in fact, a millionaire whose holdings in various enterprises (including ginseng tea, titanium production, pharmaceuticals, air rifles) are worth perhaps $15 million. The business success has grown hand-in-hand with his religious endeavors, which began, as he tells it, with a vision of Jesus Christ on a Korean mountainside in 1936, a vision that told young Moon-then a Presbyterian-to "carry out my undone task...
...North Vietnam earlier this year were asked by their hosts about the strange metamorphosis of Rennie Davis. The North Vietnamese were curious about Davis, who had been an antiwar leader for almost a decade but then had inexplicably left the movement to organize worshippers of the 15-year-old Guru Maharaj...
...visitors tried to describe the Guru and explain the growth of his following in the United States, the Vietnamese grew increasingly confused. But then one of the activists had a brainstorm. "Cao Dai," he said, and the North Vietnamese instantly beamed with understanding and sympathetic smiles...
WHILE you were away, Cambridge continued to exist, or at least survive. A famous Harvard Square bookseller passed away and a 14-year-old Guru promised peace. Amanda Bennett stayed through the summer, and reviews the events on page...
...Manhattan, the self-appointed guru of "personality radio," vowing to stay on top this time, to "bring back the old days of radio." He invests radio with almost mystical powers: "On TV, you're as big as your budget. With radio, you're as big as the imagination of the listener. You can be as big as you want to be." For which statement Wolfman Jack is Exhibit...