Sri Chinmoy meditates at Thomas A. Edison High School in Jamaica Hills in Queens, New York, NY, USA, where a concert of Indian music is performed by Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and others.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Milkha Singh at the Sri Chinmoy Centre in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ‘The Flying Sikh’, as he was known, won the gold medal in the 440 yards at the 1958 Commonwealth Games and won 77 of the 80 track races he ran during his career.
Sri Chinmoy lifts and offers U Thant Peace Award to H.E. Lakhan Mehrotra, Secretary of Indian Ministry for External Affairs, former Indian Ambassador to USSR, USA, Yugoslavia, and Sri Lanka, former Consul General of India to New York, at Aspiration-Ground in Jkamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts16 people, including Rafael Figueroa, principal cellist, NY Metropolitan Opera; Yue Sai Kan, journalist, TV series creator and Emmy Award winner; Dorothy Franco-Reed, 1984 US Olympic Handball Team player, ESPN commentator; and Vinoy Verma, former Indian Ambassador to Thailand and former Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Charles Osgood, CBS Radio and TV newscaster, winner of 3 Emmy Awards, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy also performs a short concert on the esraj.
Sri Chinmoy lifts and presents the U Thant Peace Award to Alfred Moisiu, President of Albania; and lifts Alexandr Vondra, Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic at the UN Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, USA.