Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right out of the Middle Ages. The sprawling, tile-roofed stone house has neither hot water nor electricity. The men and women who inhabit it dress in monkish white costumes woven on their own looms, and advertise their faith by wearing wooden crosses on their breasts. They eat simple, vegetarian meals of food grown in the dry, sandy soil that they work with handmade tools. Five times a day they pause in their labor for prayers...
...Andover counted over 400 names, more than any other prep school. The 1962 Who's Who adds 49 new Andover names; the biggest contingent is seven Foreign Service career men, along with the mayor of Memphis, the editor of The Commonweal, and the president of the International Vegetarian Union...
...TEMPERANCE: One may be a nonsmoker. abstainer and vegetarian, yet be called Adolf Hitler...
There is no crime. Theft would be pointless in this cooperative little commonwealth. It is vegetarian by principle (though fish are unofficially counted as vegetables). For the dissatisfied, of course, there are always those tasty hallucinogenic toadstools...
...expression is ferretlike. Brain surgery last October for a blood clot deprived him of his elaborately curled silver locks, making his looks even fiercer. Though he has no known history of any leg ailment, he constantly brandishes a cane as if it were a weapon. A teetotaler and vegetarian, Menon, 64, dresses with Savile Row impeccability at the U.N.; at home in India, he wears a loose-fitting, collarless jibbah in which, says one Western observer, "he looks like Boris Karloff playing John the Baptist...