Word: mahesh
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Dallas Real Estate Man Anthony Gange is trying to coax the corrections department into buying an unfinished 108-room mansion owned by followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, onetime spiritual mentor of the Beatles. Asking price: $2.9 million. Houston Salvage Operator George Walsh is hawking one of Britain's Falkland Islands barges, currently in the South Atlantic, for $6 million. The U.S. Government has offered to stash miscreants on offshore oil- drilling platforms...
...security precautions at the Tihar Central Jail in suburban New Delhi were unusually strict last week as heavily armed police guarded a makeshift courtroom for the final hearing of an eight-month trial. Both judge and defendants were protected behind bulletproof glass shields. After taking the bench, Judge Mahesh Chandra wasted no time. The evidence was overwhelming, he said, that the three suspects in the October 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were guilty. Following a brief recess, Chandra declared this to be one of those "rarest of rare" crimes in which the ultimate penalty was clearly called...
Although Hispanics constitute by far the largest audience for ethnic programming, a growing number of stations are offering polyglot schedules that amount to a microcosm of the U.S. melting pot. KSCI-TV in Los Angeles begins its day at 4 a.m. with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, followed by half an hour of Korean news, an Islamic educational program, a Farsi version of the Today show and, around lunchtime, a costume drama called Chinese World. WCIU-TV, Channel 26 in Chicago, carries some 60 hours a week of foreign-language programming, ranging from Club del Nino, a Hispanic children's series...
Followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the TM movement's founder, told the council that if a group comprising the square root of 1 percent of a city's population mediate together, the rate of crime, accidents and sickness will decrease, and "an ideal quality of city, state and national life" will be created...