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Like his fellow Sikhs, Mahan Singh lives by three simple and rigorous principles. Following the tenet of Nam Japna, he rises at 3 a.m., takes a cold shower and chants the name of God. Living by Dharam di Kirat Karmi, he works hard, living a family-oriented life and striving to live honestly. And he shares his possessions with others and attempts to serve as a model for the community, under the principle of Vanke Chakna. He admits the tenets, especially the last two, are fairly open-ended, and says that many take advantage of their simplicity, affilitiating themselves with...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Serenity Amid Chaos | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

...came the era of the weather girl-sex to relieve the tedium of the millibars. The acts ranged from chirpy to sultry. The women, often blond, busty and breathy, made a warm front sound like a proposition. NBC's Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The temperature in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Wonderful Art of Weathercasting | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...shock waves that battered everything on the ground below. Where did the meteorite originate? Slovak Astronomer Lubar Krésak has suggested that it was a chunk of Comet Encke, a periodic visitor to the earth's vicinity that is also the probable source of an annual meteor shower in late June-the time of the Tunguska event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireball over Siberia: 1908 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...notion that Sills would be happy as non-performing director of the New York City Opera. Predicted Caldwell: "Your voice has a voice of its own. You'll be working in the kitchen and suddenly you'll hear singing. You'll try to escape to the shower. More singing. And in the middle of the night you'll hear a voice-trills, roulades, cadenzas." Caldwell's antidote: an open-ended invitation to Sills to sing any of the roles she always meant to sing, but never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 11, 1980 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...cross-eyed) and will pocket a tidy sum from this film. Navin winds up in the gutter; Martin will probably purchase a new ski chalet in Aspen. Yet, in the end, Navin may end up the richer man--his adopted family and Marie find him on Skid Row and shower him with affirmation and love. As for Steve, if Martin the Writer continues to dominate Martin and Comedian, he may well find both his coffers and his mailbox empty after a few more flops like this film. By muffling his talent it loud strains of self-adulation like his most...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Jerk-of-all-Trades | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

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