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...disobeying his religious superiors and for interpreting literally the traditional Catholic doctrine that "outside the Church there is no salvation"; of a heart attack; in Ayer, Mass. After his excommunication, Feeney and his followers, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, moved to a farm commune in Still River, Mass. In 1972 the aging, ailing Father Feeney was reconciled to the church without recanting...
...tour. Besides his wife Joan and brood of three, Kennedy brought along three sisters, a brother-in-law, R.F.K.'s son Michael and J.F.K.'s daughter Caroline. The group, shooting photographs for TIME as they traveled, visited a silk weaving mill and a tea commune in Hangchow, a prison in Shanghai, and the Great Wall. In addition to seeing the sights, the Senator looked up relatives of some Massachusetts constituents and conferred with Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "I can't help being impressed by the motivation, the drive...
Cadging on the commune...
Whether through seduction and marriage or just plain old-fashioned bribery, the practice of illicitly cadging products and favors is called tsou-hou-men, or going through the back door. It is prevalent in every part of the country, from the poorest rural communes to the most luxurious compounds reserved for the elite. In the countryside, for example, peasants are allowed only two bars of bath soap and two or three light bulbs a year. But more of these precious items, as well as scarce fresh vegetables, chicken and eggs, can readily be obtained by anyone with an obliging relative...
Even that most valued of commodities, permission to leave China for good, is available by tsou-hou-men. One teacher, sent to do manual labor on a commune after the Cultural Revolution, tried in vain to leave China by the front door. Last year he got out by the back, after appealing to a former student who had been put in charge of approving exit visas. Success stories of this kind have given rise to a popular new proverb in China: "When a man knows the way, even chickens and dogs can go to heaven...