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8B THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Wed July 5 1972 AT HOME A Lazy Day Is A Whole (tharlotti For Reading Blue Miles Davis Pearl Buck Connie Stevens Harry Of lazy days and dirty books We are going through a period of disgraceful lassitude at our homeplace these days Father being away on a whole business and Big Brother off at boot camp The three of us left do not worry ourselves much with matters of decorum The same jeans serve well Sunday through Saturday We do not care at all what time we have our sardines and crackers If Baby Sister is still creating pot holders at half-past-midnight nobody notices (Baby Sister is an aggressive pot-holder pusher We could be embarrassed about that except that on many occasions it has been pot-holder money that has bought the sardines) If Little Brother decides to add another chapter to his epic Trip To his old typewriter may go thunk thunk-thunk on the floor upstairs until the meadowlark sings This is one of those times that comes about as often as Comet when the weary can sit down and read a book All the way through At least one Blue Do you remember Blue The great educational medium of the 20s? From which for five cents you could learn all you wanted to know about Tragic Story of Oscar or Truth About New (an object I am sure of much speculation) or to Psycho-Analyze And even more if you wanted to know about Versus or Wit and Wisdom of Like this: there is nothing novel about Hindu kisses we may well pass this section If you were fascinated by that subject too bad Mostly Now here is advice on how to pick a wife Mostly it seems should not marry a girl who has an unpleasant-sounding name one who has a flat nose one whose nostrils are high one shaped like a boy one who is bald one who has a tumor or goitre one who is disfigured one whose feet and hands perspire too Also out those whose names end in or or one who hides when her boyfriend comes up the walk Now when the scientific selection has been made man should put some betel nuts or betel leaves in her And if that does not win her should spill upon her the water he has received to rinse his We only presume before he has used it And after that the happy couple may proceed to "scratching and biting investigated ia two succeeding Which are prudently left out Most of us know enough about scratching and biting anyway This is just the first time seen it called hallways Monday night of Research Medical Center capped first full day at the hospital where he was admitted Sunday for tests described by his personal physician as routine Robert Butler a Kansas City Times reporter was at the station and heard a voice say something relating to shave and a Butler the only man in the hallway sporting muttonchop whiskers and a mustache turned to see the former president moving along with a nurse and three chuckling Secret Service agents Truman dressed in a maroon dressing gown and leaning on a cane held in his left hand appeared again moments later on the return trip to his room nodding to the nurses behind the counter and Butler know Mr President when I was 11 years old I saw you at the Truman Library on the Fourth of July the day Hawaii became the 50th Butler said officiated at ceremonies held on the front steps of the library the 88-year-old Truman replied not stopping As Truman turned the corner of the corridor he said something which caused one of the nurses to break out laughing After asking what Truman had said Butler received the message relayed by one of the nurses: said you still need a shave and a Prom Observer Wire Reports Barbra Streisand back home again and preparing for her August Way We date with Robert Redford reports she survived without any great traumatic incident her recent trip to Africa for The shooting Streisand says she even betray any fear of the lions and rhino which frequently strayed into the filming area in the remote area of Sanburo She did sleep with one eye open for the many bats inhabiting the trees near the village but as it turned out there even any cause to fret about them BACK STAGE: The and Martin writers moved into new office quarters at NBC-Burbank the other day and have already made their mark on the office doors A sign on the entrance of David quarters reads do not enter without knocking Please do not knock And on John door the legend "This is not the office of followed' by a list of all the other writers ROMANCE: Connie Stevens has gone back to playing the dating game with Michael Cal-lan with whom she was first playing that game over a decade ago before her marriages to Jim Stacy and Eddie Fisher For the first time in his career Georgia Lt Gov Lester Maddox canceled a speech Monday He said an airline strike left him with three hours sleep his wife suffered McNmighj Syndicate ine This Italian Wedding The Family Palm-Sized Treasury Well months ago Observer reporter Pat Borden brought in her treasury of these palm-sized volumes and graciously loaned them and only now in the wee small hours can they be appreciated Here is one Hindu Book of Love The Kama Maybe we will learn something from this Pick a chapter a Hindu Cinderella Should Hindu Marriage says the introduction copyright 1925 we be interested in a Hindu manual of love? Surely we need not go all the way to India to find pornography We can find enough of that in certain of our popular magazines and best-selling novels can find enough of that in illustrated advertisements of hosiery and lingerie even more than in those books which have had trouble with the Vice The editor eoes on to tell us that this is no work of pornography however it calls things by recognizable names it is not likely to be soon available for general circulation in an English unexpurgated Now the way the editor gets around such censorship it seems he simply cuts things a little short United Press International LIMA A man married the mother of his children in a mass wedding ceremony here Sunday in which two of their sons and three nephews also were married Ages of the persons married in the ceremony that joined a total of 298 couples ranged from 82 to 17 The eldest bridegroom was Francisco Lopez 82 who married Petromla Quintana 67 The family group included Romula Aliaga 42 who married his common-law wife Theodora Villaneuva also 42 in the ceremony in which their sons Moises and Juan and three nephews took brides world championship chess matches after failing to make a number of scheduled flights Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author Pearl Buck was in in Rutland (Vt) hospital where she was admitted Saturday suffering from pleurisy The 80-year-old resident of Danby Vt who has written about 80 books is working on four new novels while supervising the restoration of several buildings at an antique center she is setting up Harry Truman ventured out of his hospital room and told a nurse accompanying him on a stroll along the corridors that a newsman needed a shave and a haircut The walk along the 7th floor a virus attack and a sister underwent major surgery was the first time I ever had to cancel out and I regret it but it was just too said Maddox who had been scheduled to address a New England Rally for God Family and Country in Boston He said he hopes to be invited back in the future Newport Jazz Festival -New York promoter George Wein believes trumpeter Miles Davis and chess master Bobby Fischer have a lot in common Davis was labeled Bobby Fischer of by Wein when Davis canceled his appearance at the festival upon discovering there were two scheduled performances instead of one Fischer flew to Iceland Monday night for the fatotiuU ran vpkolAxiag Jurfffiy viW No extra charge lor our professional derorative planning service Heaven Now Not Later Is Goal Of Modern Man Imagine this sofa for only s342o0 or for only $3 1 450 in a slightly less costly fabric Following a college commencement address I gave last month one of the graduates asked me a question I had never been asked before he wanted to know: in your opinion is the main difference between people living today and those who lived in past I answer his question adequately at the time but I have been pondering on it for a few weeks and am convinced it is an important question with a meaningful answer that may explain a lot In all past ages up to a century or two ago the Western world at least was motivated by the hope and promise of happiness in another world to come For most people living today this has been replaced by the hope if not the promise of a happy state in this world for future generations if not for us People in the past were able (if not altogether willing) to exist among a complexity of physical and social evils believing these to be ordained by God and trusting that by virtuous action they would be transported unto bliss in the This is a distinctly new Idea In the long history of mankind Compared to us past civilizations were passive accepting enduring and relatively uncomplaining The order of things below was like the order of things above not to be questioned or changed unless by divine inspiration Now we believe somehow in the perfectibility of man if not in his ultimate perfection We look upon ourselves as a creative factor in the evolutionary process as fully enfranchised citizens of the universe We want life to be better in every way for our children if not for ourselves And we will take any feasible measures to make it so Thus the chaos the conflict the contradictions in modern society The secularization of Heaven into a Utopian goal on earth gives us both our vitality and our frictions both our wild hopes and our bleak fears Things never looked so bad before because people never wanted them to look so good Our discontents are the measure of our dreams 4 Separation 9 Requires Commitment By BILLY GRAHAM our charge account or our distributed payment plans for easy payments However if you prefer you can discount the above price on this (and other) sofas another 1 0 by using our advance payment plan world beyond Mundane life was largely regarded as a prelude necessary though uncomfortable to Paradise Today these eschatological notions have been transferred in great part to the secular fields of politics economics and society The idea of 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WE Senior Forum The Bible teaches that the Christian is to be in the world but not of the world Christ prayed for His disciples not that God would take them out of the world but that He would keep them from evil John 17:15 And that prayer was not just for His close disciples but for all who would believe in Christ (verse 20) Separation as spoken of in the Bible is twofold First it means to be opposed to whatever is contrary to the mind of God and second to be separated from world and committed to Christ The Bible teaches further that we are to be separated from false teachers The Bible does not teach that we are to be separated from contact with evil in he world or even in the church hut we are to he separated from complacency with and conforming to it Jesus Christ is to be our model He was holy blameless undefiled separate from sinners Yet He was In such contact with people for their salvation that the religious leaders of the day denounced Him as fellowshipping with winehibbers and sinners By PAUL HIGHTOWER Although my husband and I are only In our 30s I think all young people should be concerned about retirement Especially since my husband will not get any pension If my husband's Social Security will be about $250 a month at age 65 will savings of $50 a month accumulate enough for us to retire comfortably In 2005? At age 55 our house worth $40000 will be paid for I would appreciate your comment Mrs WIl A Thus does a young lady express her problem and It is printed largely because of the smiles it will bring to the wrinkled faces of people now in their 60s As these older people look back at the last 30 years of their lives they know how unrealistic it is to predict what is going to happen in even tO more years As for the wife in her 30s she should consider that her husband may well come under a pension system in the next 30 years that Social Security which now looks like $250 a month may well rise to $500 And who could possibly know what prices will be in 2005? Or what a house now worth $40000 will bring? Savings of $50 a month In a static account should produce a nice sum in 30 years but a couple in their 30s with an income can afford to gamble They should go for a mutual fund if they want to save for retirement But they would be wiser at their age if they would take a part of that $50 a month and enjoy the things that belong to them in their 30s and 40s These years be coming back When they pass age 50 they can decide what to do about retirement (If your question can be answered in this space send it in)k 520 Providence Rd Charlotte OPEN MONDAYS WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAY NITES 'TIL 8:30.