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...office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects, or simply wrote: "I love Ayub." So little suspense was involved that Karachi's leading daily, Dawn, published full details on President Ayub's plans for his inaugural three days before he was even elected and five days before the votes were officially...
...dawn one morning last week, while most of Baghdad was still asleep, 55-year-old Abdul Rahman, a silversmith, padded down to the Tigris and squatted on the eastern bank. Covering his head with his kaffiyeh, he recited the prayer: "In the name of the Great Life, healing and purity are thine, my Father, their Father, Great Yardna of living water." Then he began his ablutions. First he washed his hands and face and cleaned out his ears, snuffed water from his cupped palm into his nostrils three times, washed his loins, bathed his knees and legs three times, dabbled...
...they inhabit is a bulging bundle of nerves, a webwork of highways that crisscross for 220,000 miles in all directions, including ever-higher altitudes. Moreover, the dawn of the commercial jet age - with 94 jet transports already in U.S. airline service, and about 150 more due by year's end - with its near sonic speeds and bigger loads, has compounded all of the vast problems of the Air Age with unparalleled force...
...Lent produced the custom of Mardi gras, so the Moslem fast of Ramadan, ninth and holiest month of the lunar calendar,* has long led to peculiar accommodations in Islamic countries. For 29 or 30 days every year, the devout, who must abstain from food, drink, tobacco and sex from dawn to sundown, make up for it by overindulging and undersleeping during the hours of darkness. When Ramadan, on its 32-year migration through the solar calendar, happens to fall in summer, many a weary Moslem gives up, sleeps the whole fasting day through. Tempers grow short, and politics and propaganda...
...Islamic laws, in which women have little or no rights. Then he set to work on Ramadan, a custom which he believes helps hold Islamic countries in "stagnation, weakness and decadence." Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn...