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...maid at Eliot House entered the room cautiously. She had begun straightening an immense pile of letters and scraps when she spotted a middle-aged man, upcuded and apparently practicing yoga...
...said, "there should be no barrier." Later, as dusk spread across the ancient holy grounds, Bhave put his faith in man's conscience to test. The holy man walked silently to the temple with his disciples, among them several Untouchables. When they neared the great stone pile, the pandas gave the alarm. Some 50 of them, many armed with staves and sharp canes, rushed out and set upon the pilgrim band. Bhave calmly instructed his disciples to sit down and accept the beating without fighting back. One disciple was knocked unconscious, three were hurt so badly that they later...
...headed by Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella. That evening, going to a reception in Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo, spectacularly lighted by 1,023 flaming oil pots, Stephanopoulos and Papagos were saluted by guards in 16th-century costume. The party in the famed Borgia apartments atop the ancient pile (classically known as Hadrian's Tomb) was the high point of a four-day visit which had the practical end of uniting the Greeks and Italians in pledges of friendship...
...Grocer Dale Smith and sold him a boxful. Grocer Smith was soon selling as many boxes as Dottie Ferguson could turn out. She invested in a larger mixer, then in a battery of mixers that crowded her kitchen and basement. But still she could not keep up with the pile of orders...
Resting up before going off to Bern, Switzerland, to head the U.S. Embassy. Madame Ambassador Frances E. Willis, 54, the first foreign service career woman to work her way to the top of the diplomatic pile, was pictured primly snipping rosebushes at her Redlands, Calif, home...