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Wearing flowing orange robes they file through the Square, chanting "Hare Krishna" and handing out cards. They are members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, founded in 1965 by A.C. Bhanktivedanta Swami...
...however, he has not incriminated himself. "They want me to wear the hat," he said, "but I can assure them that it won't fit." Other underworld witnesses have been hauled in for questioning as well, including such Parisian types as "Jeannot le Corse," "Bronco," "Swami" and "Francois le Beige," but their testimony has simply confused matters. So far, efforts to coax Nathalie to testify have been largely fruitless, although she did submit to one bout of questioning. Now she pleads that she is too busy in Rome to break away. Delon, more cooperative, has chalked up four appearances...
...bagged her first photographer-handbagged him, in fact: she clouted a press-agency cameraman in New Delhi with her purse. The poor fellow had been waiting for Mia outside her hotel, hoping to catch her as she wended her meditational way to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, her publicity-prone swami. One of the Yogi's henchmen intervened, an altercation ensued, and Mia teed off. The photographer came away with bruises and a lump, and the Indian press came away dubious about Mia's inner serenity...
Clergy & Liturgy. A second strand of hippie faith is Hindu mysticism; its followers peruse the writings of a gallery of gurus, ranging from the popular Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (TIME, Oct. 20) to Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta of Bengal. A third source of spiritual insight is Zen Buddhism, as promulgated by Oriental Scholar Alan Watts, a one-time Anglican priest who lives on a houseboat in San Francisco...
...MEETING BY THE RIVER, by Christopher Isherwood. In his usual charming, disarming way, Isherwood tells of a dissembling rascal who tries every psychological wile to keep his saintly brother from taking his final vows as a swami...