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Like so. When the hero (a full-blooded Oriental introduced by Allen as Phil Moscowitz) slugs a thug, he calls him nasty names: "Spartan dog! Roman swine! Spanish fly!" When he meets the villain, an egg-salad addict named Shepherd Wong, he expresses his contempt for a man with "a chicken on his back," and informs him sternly that "two Wongs don't make a White." And the villain, when he dies, gasps hysterically: "Don't let me be embalmed. I want to be stuffed with crabmeat...
...Will Understand." After the first few hours of private grief, boyish-looking Chuck Percy, 47, a devout Christian Scientist, weathered the ordeal with spartan composure. His life had been a classic tale of success-a rise from $12-a-week clerk to president of Bell & Howell Co. at 29, a millionaire at 40. But this was the second untimely death that had stricken his family. In 1947 his first wife, Jeanne (who was not a Christian Scientist), died of a violent reaction to drugs after a seemingly simple and successful operation. Percy married the former Loraine Guyer...
...Deep Within Myself." Most experiences of mystical consciousness have come only after hard work - spartan prayers, meditation, fasting, mortification of the flesh. Now it is possible, through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, to induce something like mystical consciousness in a controlled laboratory environment. Such experimentation should be pushed forward, contend Psychiatrist Walter Pahnke, who holds a Harvard theology degree, and his associate William Richards, who has a degree in the psychology of religion from Andover-Newton Theo logical School. They publish their findings in the current Journal of Religion and Health...
Despite his youth, "Jack" Gowon was not a bad choice. A spartan, British-trained officer who neither smokes nor drinks (his hobby is bird watching), Gowon, although a Northerner, is not a member of the region's dominant Hausa and Fulani tribes. Nor is he a Moslem; his father, a member of the smaller Birom tribe, is a Methodist missionary. But his task is not easy...
...place of the great old trains and of its other long-haul passenger runs, the New York Central plans to start swift, spartan (no club cars) daytime shuttle service between some 80 cities along its 10,000-mile system. This, said Perlman, will "best serve the needs of the traveling public"-not to mention the Central's balance sheet...