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JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN--a disciple of the father of Indian independence, the late Mahatma Gandhi, Narayan has long been a national folk hero in India. Affectionately known there as J.P., Narayan has helped organize four national parties under the banner of the Janata [People's] Party in opposition to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
Henry David Thoreau will not speak this week. Nor will Mahatma Ghandi. Timothy Leary may speak, but not in Boston, and only Bob the Bagman could understand him anyway...
...youth and hope." He urged members of the party's youth branch to limit their families to two children, to educate at least one illiterate person and to plant one tree every year. Avoid identification with the political left or right, declared Sanjay, and follow the credo of Mahatma Gandhi (no kin to the Prime Minister) to help "the poorest of the poor and the weakest of the weak...
Somewhere between the two is the vision of the contemporary saint as a person of persistently heroic virtue and courage whose life is a model for others -a Mother Teresa, perhaps, or a Mahatma Gandhi. "A saint is someone by whom one lives," says the Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "someone who for us is a revelation of what life is all about...
...comics as the best in the world, and he won't let his other interests interfere with perpetuating them. He smiles shyly as he contemplates the burden of his responsibility to his artistic medium: "It's a mission. It's a calling. I figure there's Billy Graham, Mahatma Gandhi...