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Flames curled through a straw-and-cloth effigy hanging in the main square of normally sedate Saint John, New Brunswick. Hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the fire and to argue about the object of their anger: Kenneth Colin Irving, the richest man, the biggest landholder and the most contentious entrepreneur in Canada's Maritime Provinces...
Pressure from the radical left has forced Ceylon closer to the Red trade orbit, caused economic chaos. The severe textile shortage is largely the result of a policy that limits most imports of cloth to Russia, Poland and Red China. Other restrictions have boosted the price of potatoes, dhal (a tropical pea) and cabbage...
...CARDINAL. Director-turned-Actor John Huston plays a fire-breathing man of the cloth and nearly walks off with this screen version of Henry Morton Robinson's 1950 bestseller, which is directed by Otto Preminger in a style best described as Hollywood baroque...
...silver and crystal bottle, wrapped in three cloth bags, nestled in three wooden boxes, locked in a cabinet, in the innermost of four cells, protected by four guards, a brownish hair from the head of Mohammed has lain for three centuries in Srinagar's mosque of Hazrat Bal. On holy days, the prophet's hair is tenderly removed from its resting place, attached to a chain and locked around the waist of one or the other of five Bandey brothers, the hereditary keepers who alone are permitted to touch the sacred relic and show it to Moslem worshipers...
...mourning throngs flung away their black banners and started dancing in the streets. The hair of the prophet had been found, abandoned in the grounds of the mosque. Radio Kashmir blared joyful music as pilgrims waited for the news that the sacred relic had been wrapped again in three cloth bags, placed inside three wooden boxes, locked in its cabinet in the innermost of four cells, and was carefully watched over by four badly shaken guards...