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...Madrid's Arriba, Critic d'Ors led off for the conservatives: "How can we conceive of Jesus disguised as a sannyasi floating on a lotus lily, symbolizing renunciation of the world He came to save?...or the Conception as an almond-eyed beauty scantily clad in a sari?...The Church universally is based on unity of language, prayer and iconography...
...vows of all the churches on earth! I had rather be legally married to you ten times over!" She was converted to Theosophy (a watered-down Western copy of Hinduism) while reviewing a book by its founder, Mme. Blavatsky, went to India where she dressed in the native sari, became the leader of the world wide Theosophist movement (present member ship: 150,000). In 1909 she adopted a twelveyear- old Indian orphan boy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she declared to be a reincarnation of Christ. Today, having renounced his divinity, he is an itinerant lecturer on mystic subjects, some times known...
...gold smuggling has become a big business. In Hong Kong last week, British authorities seized $24,500 worth of smuggled gold on a plane from Manila. At London's airport three weeks ago, inspectors found an 18-year-old Indian girl with $5,600 worth hidden under her sari. In India, which bans gold imports without license, air smugglers were reported dropping gold by parachute and landing small gold-laden planes in remote clearings. This craze for gold was reflected in Wall Street last week where speculators snatched up gold-mining stocks (e.g., Dome and Homestake), giving them...
...from the tradition established by such rivals as Faye Emerson (known as "the girl who put the V in TV") and blonde Actress Eva Gabor who, last week, unquestionably won the neckline sweepstakes by assembling on her show her entire décolleté family (pretty sisters Magda and Sari, mother Jolie) in a memorable display of dazzling shoulders and Hungarian accents...
Jukebox Promoter Eric de Stoutz, executive vice president of SARI, Geneva representative of Wurlitzer, said last week: "I didn't expect them to be a success at all. I was afraid of the colors-so American looking! I was astonished to find that many Swiss thought them beautiful. At first they regarded the jukebox with curiosity . . . [then] they realized that the tone was better than anything they had heard. Believe it or not, some people now bring their own records to cafes, ask the proprietor to put them in the jukebox, and they pay to have their own records...