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Desai is a paradoxical figure whom most Westerners-and not a few Indians-find hard to understand. An outwardly placid man, Desai devoutly copies all the personal habits of Mahatma Gandhi. He is a vegetarian, fasts 36 hours every week, generally drinks nothing but water-although at a party, to get into the spirit of things, he will sometimes take coconut milk. His views on sexual continence are so rigid that he once boasted that he had not had relations with his wife for 20 years. Almost alone among India's leading politicians, he has never traveled abroad. Chief...
Mute Point. In Buffalo, Teddy Karlo, 50, arraigned on an intoxication charge, spoke Rumanian to the court, insisted that he could not understand English, heard the judge say "Thirty days," protested: "That's too much, Judge...
...insist that there would be no point to summit talks without "a hope of definite achievement." Viscount Hailsham, chairman of the Tory Party, was equally unenthusiastic about suspending British H-bomb tests so long as the Russians continue theirs. Said Hailsham: "Within the last week or two, I understand, [the Russians] have exploded devices equal to 3,000,000 tons of high explosives . . . On the assumption that I am right in thinking we are not in front in this race, we should not forget that our tests are more important to us than theirs are to them." Two Kinds...
Computers are muscling in on humans in more ways than one. Only a few years ago they were still simple-minded beasts that could understand nothing but predigested figures. Later they acquired senses of a sort: they could feel changes of temperature, hear musical tones, recognize differences of light and shade. But they could not see as humans see. A primrose by the river's brim-or even a picture of one-meant nothing to a computer...
...Charles Clayton Morrison, retired editor of the Christian Century. "What a travesty of the Christian faith this idolatry of a book called the Bible has been," he writes in the current Century, "[as well as] the false representation of what 'the Bible says.' How can one understand what the Bible says without knowledge of what the Bible...