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...world's strangest streams, the Mojave (pronounced Mohahvee) is born in the snow melt of the San Bernardinos, disappears underground, here and there marking its strange northward course by popping unaccountably above the .surface of the sand. At one place, east of Victorville, Calif., it forms a subterranean reservoir as big as Tahoe, the state's largest lake...
Among India's many primitive sects, one of the strangest is the orgiastic Shakta. The five elements of Shakta worship are madya (liquor), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (grain), and maithuna (sexual intercourse), and it has long been their custom to worship the Hindu goddess Shakti by seeking unity of body and soul in communal sex rites. Such is kanchalia dharam, the ceremony of the blouse...
...might naturally have been expected, the Leverett House Dramatic Society's initial program presented some rough edges. Of the three plays--Marriage Proposal, by Anton Chckhov, Strangest Kind of Romance, by Tennessec Williams, and Weatherwise, by Noel Coward --the last could be called thoroughly enjoyable. The others, irrespective of their merits as plays, suffered from various degrees of clumsiness in acting, direction, and production...
...Well-known Dramatists" requires grotesque positions to prepare scenery for three weird one-act plays. "The Marriage Proposal" by Chekhov is a marriage proposal which isn't, at least not until the longing-to-be-bride's father twists the scene until the knot is tied. Tennessee Williams' "The Strangest Kind of Romance" finds a man fallen in love with a cat. Animals also appear in Noel Coward's "Weatherwise" as people take to barking and scratching, and the real dogs on the set eat rugs...
...Wolverines netted their fourth goal before Cleary could race down through the entire defense to break the NCAA scoring record at 15:15 with his strangest tally of the season. Howes actually stopped the Crimson netter's solo shot, but defenseman Bob Pitts kicked in the rebound with his skate and Cleary was credited with the score...