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Krishnamurti described looking at a leaf (most quasi-philosophers usually aim at larger objects like a tree, but our man was being more selective). "While looking at a leaf my attention is distracted by other images which flash through my mind," he said. By following these images to their conclusion, Krishnamurti clears his mind of the day's debris and returns to the leaf with all his powers of concentration. He is convinced that if a man did this with every idea which crossed his mind during the day, he would have explored everything in his unconscious. He would have...
...strikes on North Viet Nam. Ever since the 33-ship force arrived, it has been tailed by one or another of the snoopy Soviet trawlers. Equipped with sophisticated electronic gear, the Russian "skunks" (as they are pungently known in Navy parlance) keep a close watch on U.S. air operations, flash their information to beleaguered Hanoi, and do their best to monitor the radars and radios of American ships and planes. From time to time, they make a dash at the U.S. ships in hopes of scaring American skippers into violent evasive maneuvers that could result in a collision with...
...held off a strong Yale challenge to edge the Elis, 4-3, in New Haven last Saturday. Yale was considered to have the best chance of keeping Brown from copping its third straight titles after it tied powerful Army 2-2 the week before. But a goal by Bruin flash Vic de Jong gave his team a 4-2 lead which held up; and now Yale can only hope that someone else will bump off the Brownies...
Harvard's sophomore flash Doug Hardin won his fourth straight cross-country race yesterday. And he did it by breaking the old Brown course record by nearly a minute and a half...
...returned from the Pacific with a bagful of airplane parts dredged out of Saipan harbor. These, he believed, were the remains of Earhart's twin-engined Lockheed Electra.* No such luck; the collection turned out to be parts from a Japanese plane. In 1964, Goerner got a flash of headlines by producing seven pounds of human bones and 37 teeth. The flyers? Nope, declared a Berkeley anthropologist-they belonged to some late Micronesians...