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...nine months plus 149 days (the period a soul spends in purgatory) after the death of a Grand Lama, priests throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha...
When the new Pullmans take the road around the beginning of the year they will have four-wheel instead of six-wheel trucks. Four-wheel trucks are made possible by improved design and the use of lighter materials throughout. By using high tensile alloy steel, weight of the car has been cut from 180,000 Ib. to around 120,000 Ib. Complete welding of the sides removes all rivet heads and joints, makes them stronger and sleeker. Between cars are semi-articulated sections, and aprons between trucks conceal the car's mechanical equipment. More innovations: flush windows, entrance steps...
Last week, all activities in the skiing world were pointed up when a dozen European experts, imported to teach U. S. skiers, demonstrated their skill at Boston's third annual indoor Winter Sports Show, and railroads throughout the nation simultaneously announced the schedules of this season's ski trains...
Less capable of high jinks, less disposed to trifle with ideas of doom, Poet Auden throughout his travels takes an English Gentleman's slightly proprietary interest in good nature and good sense wherever he may find them. Among the Icelanders he finds considerable good nature and a general sanity too unmitigated to be of much current use to a loyal inhabitant of contemporary Europe. But Poet Auden is not so loyal to Europe as to deny the notion-suggested by the sight of Icelanders clumsily gallivanting at a country fair-that plain human nature is the essential thing...
Williams, playing a defensive game throughout, was unable to cope with a strong Crimson attack. The ability of the winners to get the ball off the backboard enabled them to control the ball for the greater part of the encounter...