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...expect that the report will come out withina few weeks," said Kumar Patel, a chief physicistat Bell Labs and co-chairman of the committee...
...California, natives of the Indian state of Gujarat, where millions of people bear the family name Patel, operate inexpensive motels from San Diego to the Oregon border. The first Patel was Nanlal, who with a partner bought the old Ford Hotel in Sacramento during World War II. Scores of Patels followed. Naranji Patel, 45, owner of the Sands and Park View lodgings in San Jose, estimates that up to 80% of the state's 1,500 independently run motels with fewer than 25 rooms are in Indian hands. Most lodgings were purchased from small operators who wanted to quit...
...newcomers put their entire families to work changing sheets, sweeping floors and watching the front desk. Indian enthusiasm for the hotel trade has remained strong. Boasts Naranji Patel: "You can travel from San Francisco to New York, and there's not a town where an Indian, a Patel, is not there...
Israel, in conjunction with executive producer Joe Roth, associate producer Gautam Das, producers Ron Moler and Bob Israel, and presented by Raju Shared Patel in an Aspect Ratio/Twin Continental Production, fills Bachelor Party with a potpourri of literary and classical allusions. Rick (Tom Hanks) is a soon-to-be-wedded bus driver who invokes the love-death imagery of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the death-as voyage image of classical Greek mythoiogy, and the transportation theme of his own Police Academy. All at the same time...
...Justice Department did not acknowledge any Government misconduct, but decided against fighting the case on the ground that the evacuation program was "an unfortunate episode in our nation's history" that would best be "put behind us." U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel pronounced the Government's mealymouthed statement "tantamount to a confession of error." She added that the Supreme Court's decision was "based on unsubstantiated facts, distortions and misrepresentations...