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When menstruation at last forces her retirement, Laksmi may face a grim future. Her predecessor, who has just rejoined her family, is so shy and bewildered in the mortal world that she is unable to answer questions, and has difficulty climbing stairs, since as a goddess she was always carried up and down. Most of the ex-goddesses turn into unhappy old maids. Their handicap in husband-hunting: the rigidly held belief that the man who ends the virginity of a former Kumari will die after six months...
United States reaction to this situation, Rusher, founder and first president of the Harvard Young Republicans, declared, should be a complete re-examination of its relation to the U.N. This appraisal must be based on recognition of involvement in a "cold war with mortal stakes." That is, we must follow the course profitable to our own national interests, and not become, like the Secretary-General, a "political slave of the Afro-Asian bloc...
What J. D. Salinger is, is a phony, and it is by no means inconceivable that what drives him to such extremes of reclusiveness is simple self-knowledge, inasmuch as Mr. Salinger must surely have the windiest conscience yet granted to mortal man, the onslaught of the aspen-hinged tongue of which would drive any man to flight and concealment...
...trebled, and the paper soon took on the black glow of financial health. Hearst moved impatiently on; with $7,500,000 conned from mother, he invaded New York. He needed all his grubstake, and more, for he bought the sickly Morning Journal (circ. 77,000) and led it into mortal battle against Joseph Pulitzer's powerful World (morning and evening circ. 500,000). The fight drained his funds at the rate of $100,000 a month. The Journal picked up strength from circulation promotions and from some of the best talent in the business-much of it lured from...
...flower-cradled coffin as a guard of honor. Long lines of clerks and students filed slowly by, many of them not quite sure who it was they had been summoned to pay last homage to. In the same hall where Lenin and Stalin had been finally honored lay the mortal remains of American William Zebulon Foster...