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...Hong Kong last week, a local movie star endorsed a popular patent medicine with the ultimate tribute: "It cures you like Buddha." Hong Kong itself, for more than 100 years the warehouse of the Far East, was also taking a cure. Amid cries of street hawkers and the deafening uproar from a string of 100,000 firecrackers to drive off evil spirits. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham stepped up to a huge, towered gate decorated with neon lights, elaborate flowers and the Union Jack. Snipping a ribbon, he opened a powerful testimonial to the cure...
...Buddha & the Lemons. The man who carries most of the weight of the organization is a heavy-set grower named Paul S. Armstrong. 61, who looks like a benevolent Buddha. As general manager of Sunkist Growers, Inc. since 1931, Armstrong has the job of coordinating 175 little packing associations, each with its own packing plant, setting advertising and research policies, and devising new citrus products...
...alive and growing in its early stages, with work that was devotional rather than self-expressive. Ascetic in the extreme, it set a tradition of simplicity which was to shape Japanese art right along. With increasing prosperity, the priests got professional artists to fill their temples with images of Buddha, his attendant deities and fierce guardian gods. Such masterpieces of sacred sculpture as the Kannon (opposite) translated the liquid flow of brush-drawing into bronze...
They are blacks and whites, browns and yellows, dukes and Dyaks, cannibals and countesses, Klondike trappers and Scottish Trappists, Royal Lancers and Fijian dancers. They worship many gods, among them Allah, Buddha, the Christian Trinity, Lutembe the Crocodile of Uganda, and, in some cases, Mammon. They make their homes where birth or the spirit of adventure placed them-on an entire continent, on great islands and pinprick islets, in obscure deserts, tropical jungles, foam-flecked northern fishing villages, places with exotic names like Zanzibar, edible-sounding names like the Cameroons or Tortola, improbable names like Gozo or Piddlehinton, famous ones...
...Architecture of India, by Harvard Professor Benjamin Rowland, covers 4,000 years of history in 269 pages of text and 190 pages of photographs, touches on everything from India's complex civilization of 2500 B.C. to the fantastic, Buddha-studded temples of 8th-9th century Java...