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...million, compared with 800,000 Hindus out of a population of 58 million in the West. In Brit ish India days, the western reaches of what is now West Pakistan formed the frontier of the empire, and the British trained the energetic Punjabis and Pathans as soldiers. They scorn the lungi, a Southeast Asian-style sarong worn by the Bengalis. "In the East," a West Pakistani saying has it, "the men wear the skirts and the women the pants. In the West, things are as they should...
...books exposing and condemning escalation in Viet Nam (Triumph or Tragedy: Reflections on Vietnam and The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy) at a time when Mr. Ellsberg was in there helping the war machine. I am glad that he has come over to our side, but his alleged scorn for those who saw the point long before he did seems singularly ungracious...
...five dons in power a decade ago, only one?Carlo Gambino?retains his position today. In the four other slots, the old bosses have not been officially replaced or the men who succeeded them?including Colombo?were not considered their equals. A measure of the scorn in which Colombo was held is revealed in the wiretap transcripts of a conversation between New Jersey Boss "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and his underboss, Frank Majuri...
...nature and social movement, not the new movement's transcendental, personal God who comes to earth in the person of Jesus, in the lives of individuals, in miracles (see box, page 60). The Jesus revolution, in short, is one that denies the virtues of the Secular City and heaps scorn on the message that God was ever dead...
...slogan, printed on all agency stationery, was "Reaching for the Stars." In 25 countries around the world, the agency's reception rooms always had big bowls of red apples-a small, folksy offering for all visitors. The unpretentiousness of Burnett's work may have provoked the scorn of some young admen, yet many in the agency field contend that his influence was a major force for reasonableness in advertising. Says veteran Adman Emerson Foote: "If there were more people like Leo, there would be no antiadvertising movement today...