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Being myself a Buddhist, I read with great interest the note on Buddhism which accompanied your article concerning the Dalai Lama. You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest. This is refreshing to see, since an alarming number of Westerners seem to be under the impression that Buddhism is a lot of heathen mumbo jumbo designed to please a golden idol so that he would send the worshiper to heaven...
Nothing I have read in recent months has given me so much satisfaction as did the account in your April 20 issue...
...stung Wayne Morse. As soon as the Senate wound up its close REA vote (see The Congress), Morse stood up. Not so soon, said Morse, "did I expect that those of us who voted against the nomination of Clare Boothe Luce would be proved so right." He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this slanderer." Three Democratic Senators who had voted for Mrs. Luce-Ohio's Frank Lausche, Texas' Ralph Yarborough, Wyoming's Gale McGee-solemnly announced that if they...
Lyman suffered in silence the nickname "Rocko." (WELCOME HOME, ROCKO, read 1945 Honesdale banners.) Growing up, Lem learned golf, polished it into his present long-drive, low-80s game (one back-home partner on Honesdale's nine-hole course: Art Wall, 1959 Masters champion...
Mystery in the Den. In the years that followed, Lemnitzer settled purposefully into the orderly routine of the peacetime Army, started early his habit of retiring behind his "bear's den" door at night to read newspapers, magazines, technical journals ("I don't know," says wife Kay, "whether he goes in there to work, or read, or snooze"). He became the formidable but revered "Pop" to their two children: son William, now an Army captain and assistant professor of chemistry at West Point, and daughter Lois, wife of Artillery Lieut. Henry E. Simpson at Fort Sill, Okla...