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...that he was indeed the reincarnation of a round-bellied little man who had died shortly before the youngster was born. And last week they told the world that the little boy is the Panchen or Tashi Lama, Buddha of Boundless Light and spiritual ruler of 10,000,000 rancid Tibetans and Mongolians...
...grain and peppers, there is Harar's market place. Before the town's Law Courts there is a constant babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara...
...post-Insull afterglow of U. S. high-financeering, No. 1 utility scandal was tubby Howard C. Hopson's rancid Associated Gas & Electric. Today Hopson is self-allegedly feebleminded; his goons are dead, broke and scattered; his insolvent empire has become the largest reorganization in the history of U. S. business (TIME, March 4). A. G. & E. is simultaneously a ward of the Federal courts, a debtor of the U. S. Treasury (for at least $5,000,000 of unpaid taxes), and a regulatee of SEC, which Hopson's 1935 utility lobby tried to keep out of the utility...
...Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing can be done without bribery. Last fortnight General Wu visited Tibet's three greatest monasteries, whose abbots supervise the selection of a Dalai Lama, and distributed "alms," tea and rancid yak butter (Tibetan delicacy as well as lamp fuel) to 17,000 Lamas...
...more than a year to each gnawing stomach of 900,000 Madrileños have been rationed only a few daily scraps of bread, a handful of rice, an occasional potato or orange, rancid olive oil, no sugar, mudlike coffee, little meat. Trees have been cut down, furniture broken up, destroyed houses and buildings whittled away to provide fuel for an undernourished population that feels now more than ever the wintry blasts that sweep down from the Guadarrama Mountains...