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...famed 1945 essay, The Yogi and the Commissar, Author Arthur Koestler contrasted their ways of coping with the world-the commissar trying to change his environment, the yogi trying to change himself. Having qualified as an expert on the commissar's way of doing things (he resigned from the Communist Party in 1938), Hungarian-born Author Koestler, 55, journeyed to India and Japan last year to investigate the yogi's. He came back with a cargo of provocative conclusions that are causing controversy in Britain around his new book, The Lotus and the Robot, to be published...
Prodigious Detour. Koestler dwells lovingly on some of the more incongruous (to Westerners) aspects of Yoga, including the "painful [Hindu] obsession with the bowel functions, which permeates religious observances and social custom." Like many a Westerner before him, he was impressed with such yogi feats as reversing peristalsis to take in fluids through the anus and urethra, but was depressed by the far-out theories that went with them-such as that the sperm (bindu) is stored in the head and should be prevented from leaving the body at all costs. The result, says Koestler, is that a large number...
Sometimes the show passes that point. On one sequence during each broadcast. Funt shares his "aggravating" chores with a guest celebrity-Yogi Berra has served as a lost-ball-peddling golf caddy, Jonathan Winters as a customer-baiting complaint-department manager, and Host Godfrey as a gemutlich Good Humor man. As Funt points out: "We try for familiar frustration; anything we do in a complaint office or a tax bureau-we're in velvet...
Series record and surpassed by two the previous record held by Ted Kluszewski and Yogi Berra. "I'm just doing the same old things in the same old way," said Richardson in wonderment. "But, whango, something seems to happen to the ball.'' All this was prelude to the seventh and deciding game. In the first inning, with one man on base, up to bat stepped a garrulous vagabond named Rocky Nelson, 35. In his 16-season baseball career, Nelson had played for six big-league teams and been consigned to the minors five times before finally catching...
Once again, the Yankees rallied. The score was 9-9 in the last of the ninth when up came Mazeroski. The scouting reports said curve him low, but Yankee Pitcher Ralph Terry cut loose a high fastball. Out in left field, Yogi Berra dutifully ran back to the wall and watched the ball disappear over his head. Rounding second base, Mazeroski pulled off his cap, whirled his arms, bounded with glee like a kid on Christmas morning and galloped home with the winning run. Summed up Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick: "The most dramatic finish to a World Series...