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...when a young stockbroker went streaking on Wall Street, and BOOLA BOOLA, MOOLA MOOLA over a story on the earning power of Yale graduates. Inside, however, much of the News these days is new. After decades of preoccupation with ax murders, "sexsational" divorce cases and other tabloid staples, the Noo Yawk News is going respectable...
...Syndicate" bosses, had won only 16 seats at week's end. Voters for the most part rejected both the extreme left and right-as well as many of the rich. S.K. Patil, Bombay boss of the Opposition Congress Party, was defeated, as were Swatantra Party Chairman "Mi-noo" Masani and Samyukta Socialist Party Leader Madhu Limaye. One who did manage to keep his seat was Morarji Desai, Indira's old Opposition Congress foe, though his margin was narrowed from 125,000 votes in 1967 to 32,000 last week. Also re-elected were Jana Sangh Leader Atal Bihari...
...enterprise Swatantra Party; the Hindi-speaking, anti-Moslem Jana Sangh; the Opposition Congress Party, a split-off from Indira's Congress Party; and the Samyukta Socialist Party (not to be confused with the older Praja Socialist Party). Asked why hejoined so bizarre a grouping, Swatantra Boss M.R. ("Mi-noo") Masani replied by quoting a local proverb: ''In a family a squint-eyed uncle is better than no uncle...
...Department of the Interior. It therefore gave him special pleasure when, while hacking his way through an island rain forest in search of rare biological specimens, he spotted a bird with a "yellow posterior and a peculiar, sickle-shaped bill." The bird was the Mauinukupuu (pronounced noo-koo-poo-oo), which had been considered extinct since...
Existential Vacuum. Since this search is at the intellectual rather than the instinctual level, Dr. Frankl makes great play with words beginning with noo, from the Greek noös (mind), as in noö-dynamics and noögenic neuroses.* He coined logotherapy from logos, usually translated as word, speech or reason, which he defines as "meaning." As Dr. Frankl views the human condition to day, it is distinguished by "the existential vacuum," or "a total lack, or loss, of an ultimate meaning to one's existence that would make life worthwhile...