The mandali at Meherazad kept silence on Sunday, 10 November, according to Baba's wish.
Adi's main helper at his office was Feram Workingboxwala. For a change, Feram came for a three-week stay at Meherazad on the 10th. Baba would call him every year around this time.
When he came, Baba would instruct him, "You do nothing but type in Ahmednagar, so now rest while you are here."
But some work or the other would inevitably have to be done, and Feram had to spend his "restful stay" typing. By then Feram had worked at Adi's office for years, and his love for Baba was exemplary. A straightforward man of simple habits, Feram was a great help to Adi by doing all of the filing and storing of letters, telegrams and circulars. Baba once revealed to him that he had been a yogi in a previous birth, and assured him that Upasni Maharaj's words were true, that this was his "last lifetime."
Feram would often complain, "Spirituality is nothing but harassment!" He would also complain that the other mandali lied, or told only half the truth, by telling new lovers only the sweet, loving things about Baba — and not about the "grinding" the mandali had to pass through.
Presidential elections had recently been held in America. When the news was received that Richard Nixon had been elected, Feram, who did not like him, was wondering how Baba could have allowed such a man to become President.
Baba told him, "There is no worthy man to be President of the United States. Nixon was the only choice."
On a previous occasion, in 1960, when Richard Nixon lost to John F. Kennedy in the election by a narrow margin, Baba mentioned that Nixon was destined to become president. Nixon had a small "encounter" with Meher Baba's name when he attended the World's Fair in New York in 1964. Jane Haynes and her daughter Wendy were just leaving the Pavilion of American Interiors where there was a Baba booth, when they saw Nixon surrounded by a crowd, signing autographs. Jane thrust a copy of the "Universal Message" into his hand for him to keep, but, instead, with barely a glance, Nixon signed his name above Baba's and returned the brochure to Jane.
Baba was brought to the hall each morning in the lift-chair by four of the garden boys, and he would get up from the chair with the help of Kaka and Francis, and then take his seat in the hall. While leaving to return to his room, Baba himself would rise unaided and be conducted to the lift-chair by Kaka on one side and Francis on the other.