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...only successful approach to all personal problems. And for centuries before Christianity this principle was proclaimed. Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy says that self-surrender "is inculcated ... in the . . . writings of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and most of the other major and minor religions of the world." In recent years in the popular publications, A.A. and many other laymen and churchmen have been advocating this approach to abundant living. It is nice to know that science is at last catching up with the Truth. RUTH HITCHCOCK DAVIS Wakefield, Mass...
Downhill. Things had gone from bad to worse for Gandhi, the pacifist, in recent months. India and Pakistan drifted toward war in Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...
...Gandhi was in no condition to fast for long. (His longest heretofore: three weeks. His most recent fast, last September, lasted only 73 hours.) Worried doctors who hovered over him thought he might not live beyond two weeks...
This brings to 25 the total number who have registered during the three days before Christmas and during the recent two-week extension. Possibly ten times as many will be needed before the Athletic Association opens Soldiers Field for student cars...
...billion, $789 billion, and $1,321 billion were the figures submitted by Slichter, based respectively on records of increase per worker and on recent rates of increase in the national income. Somewhere between "the fairly wide range of $800 billion and $1,300 billion is to be found the correct figure for reproducible wealth in the year 1990," Slichter declared...