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...wells, or watch them eat. Temples are theoretically open to them, but they are still purged with milk -floor, walls, ceilings and idols-after the untouchables leave. Untouchables who have turned Christian often find their lot even worse than before. Shopkeepers may refuse to sell to them, barbers to shave them, and other untouchables sometimes drive them from their wells. This has accelerated the trend back to Hinduism. Hindu sources claim 10,000 reconversions for last year alone...
...this the music of the future? Stockhausen, who is so immersed that he tends to forget to eat and shave, replies with a shrug: "It has little popular appeal. But that also goes for the conventional music that I compose...
...political weapon, Graham has had to restrain Herblock. In his Republican gallery (Ike as a perplexed boob; Dulles, a smug bumbler; Wilson, a predatory capitalist), the cartoonist began drawing Nixon as a heavily stubbled, bestial figure resembling the famous Herblock caricature of Joe McCarthy. Graham sternly ordered Herblock to shave the Vice President. "Nixon is not McCarthy," he scolded, "no matter what else you may think...
...Blandings, Carey Grant spends most of his time looking dire, and he is an old hand at it. Few actors, probably, have gotten as many laughs out of standing in front of a mirror and trying to shave. Myrna Loy, as his wife, Muriel Blandings, and Melvyn Douglas, the old lawyer friend, are also old hands. Under such sure guidance, the movie grinds itself out at the Blandings bathroom mirror or in front of the Blandings building site...
...Only a few supporters were there to handshake. By sheer coincidence, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown, the most important elected Democratic official in California, had just flown in from San Diego and was waiting for his luggage. "Why hello, Pat," said the unshaven Kefauver. "You need a shave." Brown, who had been called a Stevenson "boss" by Kefauver's supporters, grinned and cracked: "When you're a boss spending a lot of time in a smoke-filled room, you always need a shave...