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Swamis with Sidelines. H. Hatterr, Desani's comic hero, is a born stooge and fall guy. Born illegitimate, "a love-brat, a mixed Oriental-Occidental sinfant," Hero Hatterr endures a series of misadventures which keep him low man on life's totem pole.
For the eating fan, which every girl is after a week of college food, Chin's Chinese Village, also on Route Nine, offers Oriental and Occidental dishes, while the 1812 House, farther along the same road, specializes in fine old American meals.
* Among them: Occidental Life Insurance Co., Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Avco Manufacturing Corp., Philadelphia Co., Standard Gas & Electric, Duquesne Light Co., ACF-Brill Motors, Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd., Republic Steel Corp., Washington's Carlton and Wardman Park hotels.
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was troubled by spiritual questions. In Rangoon, where he was paying a neighborly call on the Burmese government, a reporter asked Nehru about the contradiction between his Occidental education and his Hindu background, inquired whether he was not suffering from inner conflict. "Yes...
"The arts! The arts have gone to pot," replied the Sultan cheerfully. Once his people found a man who could carve well, he went on, they would chain him and give him all the food, drink, women and tools his heart desired, and after some drinking and some lovemaking he...