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...gilding of Chih Hang [June 8] is not the first, nor will it be the last such deification of a revered monk by a Chinese congregation. My favorite is that of Abbot Soong Chiu-cheng, who in death takes a much nicer picture than does Chih Hang...
...Abbot Soong headed the Tien Chen Cloister in Shanghai. He died at the age of 62 in 1942. What makes Abbot Soong unique that he predicted, a year before his death, not only the time of his death but the fact that his body would not decompose...
Like Chih Hang, Abbot Soong was sealed after death in stone urns, placed one on another. But he did not stay there any five years. After 76 days of a heat wave and the covering urn was removed, Soong was found to be in good condition. But one of the incense sticks that propped up his head had snapped (children playing in the cloister had bumped against the urns), and so now his head rests on his shoulder as if in sleep...
...Crimson hammer throwers, Stan Doten and Jim Doty, are around the 180-ft. mark and could score well. Doten and John Bronstein could place in the discus, but the varsity's two 50-ft shot putters, Hank Abbot and Steve Cohen, may find themselves out of the running...
Improvement awards were given to Hank Abbot in the shot put, Lee Barnes in the 220 and 440, Dyke Benjamin in the distances, and Art Cahn...