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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians-find hard to understand. An outwardly placid man, Desai devoutly copies all the personal habits of Mahatma Gandhi. He is a vegetarian, fasts 36 hours every week, generally drinks nothing but water-although at a party, to get into the spirit of things, he will sometimes take coconut milk. His views on sexual continence are so rigid that he once boasted that he had not had relations with his wife for 20 years. Almost alone among India's leading politicians, he has never traveled abroad. Chief reason: he is opposed to "injections of foreign substances into the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Steel-Stemmed Lotus | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...home Andy began to feel ill, took a cola drink and milk to ease the pain. They only made it worse. He called his family physician, who knew Andy's occupation. A barium X ray confirmed his diagnosis: Andy had punched a hole through his esophagus (gullet), narrowly missed his heart. His drinks were spilling through the hole into his chest cavity. The doctor called Surgeon Philip Thorek, an amateur movie fan who is careful to take a camera crew with him on unusual cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: With Fire & Sword | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...year-old girl named Djamila Bouhired sprawled in the narrow street, with a bullet wound in the shoulder. In her possession were various F.L.N. documents linking her to Yacef Saadi, the rebel "Captain of Algiers," who had been terrorizing the city with a rash of bombs planted in cafes, milk bars, and litter baskets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Tac-Tac-Tac | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Judges 4:19 (milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Cups Jeremiah | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

Metaphoric suggestions were offered by James R. Reynolds '23, Program Manager. "You don't get many eggs if you have a great many roosters and very few hens," the amateur farmer noted. "No cow ever let down milk in response to a letter or a telephone call," he warned; "you have to sit down beside her and go to work...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Groundbreaking Sparks 'Program' | 3/8/1958 | See Source »

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