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...India's able Finance Minister Morarji Desai, austerity is a way of life. Not only is he a vegetarian and a teetotaler who fasts for a day and a half every week, but he is also a hardheaded fiscal conservative who derides pie-in-the-sky welfare schemes and is an ardent believer in pay-as-you-go financing. Last week Desai presented the Indian Parliament with an austerity budget that will put the entire nation on the Desai standard...
...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...