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New York Mayor Edward Koch presents Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy with a special award at the start of the Guru’s 11-day birthday celebration. Several hundred of the 47ear-old Guru’s disciples watch the ceremony.
Published in Boston Herald American, Friday, August 18, 1978