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...such classics as Shakespeare and the Bible, but confirmed audiles can find plenty of esoteric items, ranging from a cozy chat with a prostitute ("It's no kind of life for anybody") in Cast the First Stone (Dolphin) to the singsong incantations of drugged natives ("Chjon nka sikjane-nia tso'') in the Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico (Folkways...
...inclusion of identical planks in the platforms of both parties." Signers of the appeal came from oppo site political poles. Among them: Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and New Jersey's Republican Senator H. Alex ander Smith, Minnesota's Republican Rep resentative Walter Judd and Pennsylva nia's Democratic Representative Francis Walter. One reason why the Committee of One Million may achieve its goal: when the U.S. Senate last week adopted, 86 to 0, a House-approved (391-0) resolution against the admittance of Red China to the U.N., it was only reflecting over whelming...
...houses are suitable, many buyers are going back to traditional designs. The hottest sellers in Dallas this year are Georgian. Colonial and even houses with French Provincial trims, but all are modified to give the kind of light, cool living that buyers demand in the Texas climate. In Califor nia, the swing to traditional houses has brought back "Cinderella" and "Storybook" houses with leaded-glass windows and dormers...
Triggered by moist tropical air, which the Pacific jet stream freakishly shot in from Hawaii over cool northern Califor nia, a tremendous downpour began at mid-month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...
...Christ. Today, having renounced his divinity, he is an itinerant lecturer on mystic subjects, some times known as "the messiah in plus fours." In 1929 Mrs. Besant tried to start a Theosophist colony at her Happy Valley ranch in California, to breed super-Americans. She said the Califor nia climate favored such an experiment, but she eventually gave it up. Like all Theosophists, she believed that she had several bodies which helped her in her work. Before she died (she was burned on a funeral pyre), Annie Besant said: "I shall return immediately in a Hindu body, to continue...