Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third member of the team, Emile Zola Berman, was once described by an associate as a "marvelously warm person" who looks like "a living version of Ichabod Crane." Last week he spotted Mary Sirhan shyly working her way through the reporters in the courtroom. Berman bowed gracefully and kissed Mrs. Sirhan's hand-a gesture for which she was obviously unprepared. Nor was her son prepared to be defended by a Jew for a crime he allegedly committed because of his victim's pro-Israeli campaign oratory...
...successive steel doors, each manned by a deputy, who peers through a wire-glass window. Pockets must be emptied, purses checked. Handkerchiefs are shaken, contact-lens fluid sniffed, ballpoint pen cartridges removed and examined. Everyone is frisked, and then a deputy passes a metal-detecting device over each person. The deputies themselves are scrupulously searched before every session...
Powell disavows the label of racist, or racialist as some Britons say. "What I would take 'racialist' to mean is a person who believes in the inherent inferiority of one race of mankind to another, and who acts and speaks in that belief," he explains. "So the answer to the question of whether I am a racialist is no." Moreover, he scoffs at the claims of his critics that his volatile choice of words encourages racist reactions in his listeners. Instead, he argues, "I am a safety valve." Powell has even conceded that immigrants are "no more malevolent...
Another UFO landmark, a "claw-shaped" marking on the dry sand of a beach that was pictured in a special Look issue on flying saucers, turned out to be merely urine-soaked sand. "Some person or animal," the Condon report solemnly states, "had performed an act of micturition there...
Soka Gakkai makes few demands on its converts: beyond shakubuku, all a person has to do is practice Gongyo-the morning and evening recitation of Buddhist sutras and the chanting of the Daimoku "until they feel satisfied." "It's a matter of practicing," explains one young member. "As long as you're chanting, you're in. If you stop chanting, you're out." Members can chant for anything, any time, and the newer ones often concentrate on material wants: a better apartment, a new job, a new car. Members even testify to such minor miracles...