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"Hello, Ops. This is Major Manchek, Scoop Control A-12. We need a fly-by over Piedmont, New Mexico. Infrared, a FLIR scan, all sectors, film to come direct to Scoop. Assign… Gunner Wilson. If he's not crocked some place."
"[Reading a suicide note from an old woman hanging over her stairs 0:24:33] "The Day of Judgement is at hand. Have mercy on my soul… and to Hell with all the others, amen!""
"Fools! They refuse to believe life exists in meteorites. I showed them at the astrophysics conference what I just showed you. But no! Even with a microscope, they are blind! What do I have to do, hit them over the head?"
"Arthur Hill — Dr. Jeremy Stone"
"David Wayne — Dr. Charles Dutton"
"James Olson — Dr. Mark Hall"
"Kate Reid — Dr. Ruth Leavitt"
"Paula Kelly — Karen Anson"
"George Mitchell — Jackson"
"Ramon Bieri — Maj. Manchek"
"Eric Christmas — Senator Phillips (Vermont)"
"Ken Swofford — Toby"
"John Carter — MP Capt. Morton"
"James W. Gavin — Dempsey"
"Reuben Singer — Dr. Rudolph Karp"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.