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Three days later in Amman, its dusty capital, Jordan buried Abdullah. In his simple palace, men chanted verses from the Koran. As Abdullah's coffin was carried out to a waiting caisson, crowds of women wailed "Sayedna" (Our Master), tore their clothes and beat their bodies...
Most unusual of the spot assignments was a request by the Museum of Comparative Zoology for a man to clean out a coffin at $1 an hour. Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill hired a babysitter for two ponies through the office, while the cafeteria in Fenway Park asked for an office manager, offering an extra dollar for double-headers...
Cleaning Out Coffin...
Carloads of funeral wreaths preceded the flag-draped coffin through Istanbul's streets to the Monument of Eternal Liberty. Turks by the thousands marched in the long cortege that followed, and lined the streets with heads bowed in reverence. All of Turkey paused for a moment last week as the long-dead bones of Midhat Pasha were brought home from exile for proper burial in his native land. Said a spectator: "This is a day not for sorrowing, but for rejoicing...
...investigate this relationship between faith and politics, a small group of Protestant churchmen met at the close of World War II under the leadership of Methodist Dr. John R. Mott and Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. They decided to begin by commissioning a history of the subject, to be prepared by Church Historian James Hastings Nichols, associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago and author of Primer for Protestants. The result, just published as Democracy and the Churches (Westminster Press; $4.50), turns over many a fertile furrow for both churchman and statesman...