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Neon Ads & Cow Protection. Last week visitors to Gandhinagar got a glimpse of both Tandon's traditional past and Nehru's wondrous future. Sitting in a specially built, galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which...
Christianity, said the dean, is a way of living, not a way of talking, or even of thinking. "Although Christ was strict in dealing with the temptations of the flesh, He was gentler with such sinners than Puritanism. The ideal Christian is not the monk or hermit, nor is he, as was sometimes thought in the 19th Century, the respectable...
Neither he nor Cecil B. DeMille (urbanely played by Cecil B. DeMille), to whom she brings the script, can bring himself to puncture her confident illusion that her return to the screen is imminent. While she undergoes a strict course of beauty treatments in preparation for her triumph, Holden sneaks away regularly to collaborate on his own script with a good friend's fiancée (Nancy Olson), a reader at Paramount. He and the girl fall in love. But by that time, he has become so enmeshed in the Sunset Boulevard snare that he cannot escape...
...Tejada clamped on a strict curfew and censorship, began confiscating all arms held by civilians. He also called in the strikers and got their agreement to go back. Happy conservatives rejoiced that a new order had been established, with Paz Tejada as the strong man. Now, they thought, the Communists whom Arévalo had been harboring in some government posts would be sacked, and candidates opposing Jacopo Arbenz would get a fair deal in this year's election...
...shooting them down (23 were murdered in line of duty). Under the direction of the commission's cochairmen, Major General Harry H. Johnson of Texas, and Oscar Flores, subsecretary in Mexico's Department of Agriculture, A-men relaxed their trigger fingers and switched to a policy of strict quarantine and vaccination...