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...Soviet authorities were up in arms at the treachery of two young painters, E. Sazykin and Andreev, who had been commissioned to paint collective farm life in the town of Bondari. Instead, they were doing a brisk business painting icons and murals for the local Russian Orthodox church. On the ground that it was rank ingratitude to prefer "the dark corners of churches" to "the radiant creativeness" of Soviet life, the art committee expelled them...
Soon he is doing such a brisk business exorcising evil spirits that he has to buy his own fleet of taxis to ferry his patients over the rutted dirt roads. When Ganesh writes a book called What God Told Me ("On Thursday, May 12, at nine o'clock in the morning, just after I had had breakfast, I saw God . . ."), half the island of Trinidad burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country...
Hatless and coatless, shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Massachusetts' 41-year-old U.S. Senator, stepped smiling from an airliner at Salt Lake City one brisk morning last week. He shook the hand of every politician in sight, some now familiar from his two other Utah visits since 1956, and rode off to address a joint session of the legislature. "Like you, we in Massachusetts came to our state under great difficulties," he told descendants of Mormon pioneers. "We, too, had great faith in our churches." With photogenic wife Jacqueline alongside, he paid a cordial call on the Mormon Church...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). For those with mathematically esoteric tastes, nothing beats a brisk panel discussion about testing Einstein's relativity by atomic clocks in outer space...
Guided by a Codicil. The Sunday Sacramento Bee had another purpose: to meet the threat of San Francisco's Chronicle and Examiner, which have recently pushed brisk Sunday circulation sorties into a jealously guarded newspaper preserve. To the custodian of the preserve-which also includes five radio stations and a television station-such poaching is intolerable. Valley residents seem to feel about the same way. In the 18,000-sq.-mi. domain, one of every two doorsteps is daily crossed by a Bee; in Sacramento so many people take the paper that a new carrier boy is handed...