Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form, no ritual, no church, no creed, no "Bible," no authority or priestcraft administering it and is devoid of images and the adoration of them. It has as its main objective the concentration of the mind-without lotus positions, kneeling, closeting, bending, stooping or praying. This results in the person's becoming more aware of life, all life, and the process by which it flows without beginning...
Nixon is apt to be a shrewder and more adroit diplomat-in-chief than Humphrey, whose impetuosity and trustfulness could prove to be serious liabilities. Humphrey often seems too ready to believe the last person he has talked to and too easily impressed by foreign leaders. Though Nixon has never been particularly popular among America's allies (or foes), he would be cooler, more concerned with basic geopolitics than with the feeling of the moment...
Last week a Virginia Circuit Court of Appeals convicted a member of the Big Stone Gap congregation, Roscoe Mullins, 50, of violating a state law against handling snakes "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." (Another defendant, Kenneth Short, was acquitted of the same charge.) The prosecution claimed that Mullins had also handled the snakes at the service, thus endangering other worshipers. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine. Released on $2,000 bond, Mullins said that he would appeal all the way to the Supreme Court...
This time there is only one person in the culdesac, a newly successful English movie star named Annabel Chris topher. Though neither pretty ("a peaky face and mousey hair") nor clever ("a deep core of stupidity that thrives on the absence of a looking-glass"), she projects well-bred sexiness on the screen. In the hands of Luigi Leopardi, a chimerical Roman director, she becomes "the English Lady-Tiger." The public image is painstakingly built up by the movie company, and inevitably it begins to seep into Annabel's psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly...
...just about everything Dow's people need, Dow provides for them--right there. Dow has its own 131-man police force, its own 20-bed hospital, two fire stations, and a mammoth cafeteria for its 12,000 employees. It seems, in fact, that a person can spend his whole life fenced within Dow's plant, at no great physical inconvenience--if he can learn to tolerate the smoke...