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DIED. INDRA DEVI, 102, early "yoga ambassador" to the West whose students included China's Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo; in Buenos Aires. After persuading globally renowned guru Sri Krishnamacharya to teach her (his first woman student), she traveled the world teaching her gentle brand of yoga, even prompting Russia to legalize the practice after she met with leaders...
...only some offenders. The experiment has generated so much attention that the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission plans to weigh in on the debate with a study due to be released this summer. "If it works as well as he says it does, everybody should be doing it," says Scott Swanson, executive director of the commission. "If not, we should be able to tell." --By Sarah Sturmon Dale
...fleeting scene in Some Like It Hot, but Billy Wilder couldn't resist giving him a line with a nifty reverse spin on it. That was Wilder all over. He gave Hollywood's top stars their finest, fullest roles: Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.), Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon), Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot), Jack Lemmon (The Apartment and six others). And what was in it for the viewer? Roiling dramatic dilemmas, complex adult characters and, memorably, some of the tastiest slices of dialogue in movie history. That...
...doesn't always work out that way. Janet Swanson, 55, a writer from Minneapolis, Minn., consecrated her divorce in her Congregational church with a minister and 10 of her closest friends--but not her husband of 21 years. She was "disappointed" that he wouldn't take part, but she says, "I saw a window of opportunity for healing, and I didn't want to rush through it in pain and all the stuff that happens in a divorce." At the ceremony, the minister spoke about why marriages end; friends expressed what they felt about the divorce; and guests read...
...million buyout from EMI's Virgin label [PEOPLE, Feb. 4]. Where but in America would someone get this much money not to work? This must really impress the refugees elsewhere who are cold and hungry. Is this the picture of the U.S. we want the world to see? RUTH SWANSON Millersville...