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...Noble Four & Eight. Buddha was born Gautama, the prince, son of a rajah, who gave him palaces, slaves, dancing girls, every kind of beauty and pleasure. One day, on a forbidden ride outside the palace grounds, he encountered four persons: an old man, an ill man, a dead man and an ascetic. Profoundly troubled by this look at reality, 29-year-old Gautama one night took silent leave of his sleeping wife and son and rode...
...girls can cook with a big choice of toys featuring miniature cans and packages of such brand-name products as Campbell Soup, Betty Crocker Cake Mix and Suchard Chocolate. They can clean with Marilyn Products, Inc.'s battery-powered Electrikbroom Jr. ($7.98) and make their own perfumes (Rajah's Scent, Power Dive, Boing, Shmooth, Jeepers...
After reading your Aug. 25 article, "How Not to Make Friends," I couldn't help but wish you had published the names of the drugstores and restaurants which refused service to S. Thava Rajah, so that the decent-minded people of Washington, D.C. would know better than to patronize such . . . places...
...people of Washington, D.C. when I read that a Malayan, S. Thava Rajah, had to spend 90 days as a guest of our Government to show us that we only preach democracy. Racial discrimination, whether North or South, is the blackest spot on our nation's record of freedom for all men. If the national capital cannot set a better example, let's move the seat (and head) of our Government back to Philadelphia, "the city of brotherly love...
After these incidents, Malayan Rajah last week was not necessarily unfriendly, but he was vastly puzzled. Said he: "After all, isn't white a color? I am terribly surprised by all this. You people talk democracy, and you must be careful to practice what you preach...