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...wooded hillside overlooking the Ganges River came perhaps the strangest group of pilgrims since Chaucer's in the Canterbury Tales. There, near the town of Rishikesh, 53 persons from ten nations gathered in a grove to pay their homage. Prosperous West German businessmen mingled with bearded Scandinavians. A 26-year-old Bengali interrupted his bicycle tour of the world to drop in. Mia Farrow, Frank Sinatra's absentee wife, and her brother and sister put in appearances at one time or another. And over in Bungalow No. 6, topping off the list of those seeking wisdom and truth...
...Princefish." Probably the strangest aspect of the Dodd Affair was the havoc it wrought on the once-promising prospects of Russell Long. As chairman of the powerful Finance Committee and Senate Majority Whip, the "Princefish" (his father, the demagogic Huey, was the "Kingfish"), just a few short months ago had every reason to hope that he would follow Mike Mansfield as Majority Leader, perhaps even emerge one day as a vice-presidential candidate. But his wild rants and arrogant tactics in defense of Dodd-coming shortly after an equally bizarre defense of his discredited presidential-campaign financing bill-irrevocably alienated...
Perched high on a hill over Switzerland's Lake Geneva is one of the world's strangest-looking abodes, a concrete egg with a huge bay window that often reminds visitors of a flying saucer, a giant clam or a monstrous white mushroom...
Because Buddhism has for so long been "the ultimate source of Asian values," says Schecter, it was inevitable that the pressures of colonialism and modernization would stretch the faith into new shapes. One of the strangest shapes may some day emerge from the confrontation between Buddhism and science; the Vietnamese Buddhists hope eventually to create a Buddhist university whose curriculum would include engineering, mathematics and medicine, but today that prospect seems close to fantasy. At present, Buddhism is less concerned with adopting Western ways than with providing a kind of "cultural defense" against them. Part of that defense rests...
...cast is pretty high-powered too. Momma is Geraldine Page (you might check today's page one to see if she has won an Academy Award), lecherous poppa is Rip Torn; lecherous spinster is Julie Harris; Wise-guy friend is Tony Bill; big boy himself is Peter Kastner. But strangest of all is Elizabeth Hartman--the blind girl you all knew and loved in A Patch of Blue--as the disco dancer. She shakes, she shimmies. she is the most unremittingly evil person you'll meet all week...