Word: rying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late Sri Aurobindo of Pondichéry, India, who died in 1950 at the age of 78, taught a different kind of integral yoga. Departing from the usual teaching of yoga, which speaks in terms of freeing the spirit from domination by the body, Aurobindo stressed perfecting the body by bringing the spirit more completely into it. Rather than looking toward an escape from the cycle of existence, he envisioned a this-worldly utopia of new consciousness. "It is the descent of the new consciousness that is the stamp and seal of my discipline," he wrote. Like Teilhard de Chardin...
...Georges Pompidou do if the Gaullists win next month's parliamentary elections? According to one highly imaginative scenario that political observers in Paris are currently debating, his first step will be to sack lackluster Premier Pierre Messmer, 56, and appoint in his stead Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47. As it happens, the suave, non-Gaullist Giscard is regarded as Pompidou's arch rival for the 1976 presidential elections. Last week he came in a close second to former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas in a nationwide popularity poll...
...PRESS. Panelists criticized the press for its overconcentration on the White House, its relatively superficial coverage of Congress and its oversimplification of the reforms necessary to make Congress more effective. "If Hen ry Kissinger is the best national journalists can do for a sex symbol in national politics," noted Jones, "then they have not completed the search." Mon dale claimed that reporters follow a "star system," and fail to spot talented and courageous newcomers, many of whom quit politics when they see no one supporting their efforts...
...successor, former Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, apparently believes that without some controls West Germany will be forced to revalue the mark upward for the second time in less than a year, thereby making its products more expensive and harder to sell abroad. French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, too, favors currency regulations as opposed to floating rates...
...almost $900 million in 90 frenzied minutes Friday morning before officials finally halted trading. In Switzerland, monetary authorities decided not to buy dollars to hold up the price, letting the dollar float down against the Swiss franc. As the situation worsened, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing conferred with President Georges Pompidou and then announced that Common Market central bankers would meet in emergency session in Paris over the weekend to consider what...