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...Congo's latest mutiny began on payday. Opening up their pay envelopes last week, Leopoldville's 3,000-man police force discovered that their demand for a 25% wage hike had not been met. At dawn the next morning, the angry cops overpowered their own officers, then raided Leopoldville's city hall, where they took some two dozen hostages, including two deputy mayors and the mayor's pregnant wife. Barricading themselves in their police barracks, the well-armed cops waited for the government to ante up more money...
Soaking & Sipping. Winter skiers rise before dawn, bundle into long Johns, sweaters, parkas and mittens, stash away a high-calorie breakfast, and hit the slopes in a hurry to salvage every instant of scarce daylight, determined to get as much as they can out of the short day, the long drive and the considerable expense. But spring geländesprungers tend to take it easy, swinging onto the tows as the sun crosses the yardarm, basking in the long sun after lunch. Their siestas are prolonged because the midday snow is apt to be mushy, because spring snow is harder...
...Pope Leo XIII cautiously encouraged Catholic scholars to join in the scientific investigation of Scripture begun by Protestant Germany's "Higher Critics." It was a false dawn. Under Leo's successor, Pius X (1903-14). church officials took arms against the heresy of modernism-which taught that Catholic dogma should be revised in the light of progress made by science and philosophy -and Bible scholars proved to be handy targets. Some found their writings placed on the Index; the top Catholic scholar of his day, Dominican Father Marie Joseph Lagrange, was dismissed from his teaching posts...
Next day at dawn, Grimau, pale but composed, was led into the courtyard of Carabanchel Prison just outside Madrid. He walked alone to the wall, refused a blindfold, shouted "Viva el Comunismo!", and then collapsed under a volley of shots fired by Spanish Moroccan troops...
...long open letters to such world figures as the Pope and Queen Victoria. They did not answer. Baha'u'llah's teachings changed considerably over the years, and at first many of them had a distinctly Islamic cast: all male believers must undertake a dawn-to-dusk fast each year similar to the Moslem Ramadan, could marry no more than two wives. Baha'u'llah's leadership was handed on to his son, and then his great-grandson, Oxford-educated Shoghi Effendi, the late husband of Mrs. Rabbani (she later remarried). Since then...