Word: sari
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rehearing proceeding took less than five minutes and contained no discussion of the issues board members cited two weeks ago when they rejected the Brattle Theatre's earlier application. Campbell, along with Sari Abul-Jubein, the owner of the theater, told the board that other Cambridge theaters run midnight movies and that the movies planned at the Brattle "are of the same high quality as the movies that we have shown for many years...
Dressed in a blazing red sari, Mrs. Gandhi sat cross-legged on the dais while she was unanimously elected president of the breakaway group, which calls itself the legitimate Congress Party. In her 45-minute speech, she attacked the policies of Morarji Desai, who had succeeded her as Prime Minister after her humiliating defeat in last March's election. She also told her supporters that they should be "prepared to go to the jails and fill them in large numbers"-a prospect that was likely to become as unpopular with politicians as her mass sterilization program had proved...
...endless whirl of parties in Ireland. Back in the U.S., Miss Lillian barely had time to unpack before she was out on the town in Manhattan. At a lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much so that she stayed on for the Jaipur Ball that...
...five years ago to join the Hare Krishna sect. Merylee had been finishing her second year at Queens College and hoped to become a teacher. But she took the Hindu name of Murti Vanya, became a nun in the sect's New York City temple, donned a saffron sari and joined her fellow devotees in chanting in the streets.* Convinced that Merylee, 24, had been brainwashed, her mother hired a private detective, Galen Kelly, to rescue...
Breaking Bread. Clad in her spotless blue-bordered white sari, Mother Teresa, who ministers to the starving people of Calcutta (TIME, Dec. 29), was the cynosure of the congress. At the world-hunger symposium, the diminutive nun prayed over a table laden with bread, then broke a loaf of bread and invited those in attendance to do likewise to symbolize the sharing of food. To her, both the U.S. and India are in deep trouble. "There is spiritual poverty and there is material poverty," she told her audience of 6,000 faithful, "and I think each...