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These high-salaried, early-morning moonlighters were devout Mormons helping to build a new $600,000 chapel for a ward (parish) in Federal Heights, a prosperous Salt Lake City suburb where homes cost up to $85,000 and the average income is about $13,000 a year. By Mormon rule, the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contribute half of the chapel's cost; the ward's members must pay the rest. The Mormons of Federal Heights have collected most of their cash quota, but they decided to supplement it by taking advantage...
...employee welfare fund, which pays handsome benefits to workers upon retirement. But Idemitsu boasts that old workers are never pressured to retire and bad ones are never fired; even chronic drunkards are merely sent to dry out for a few months in a Buddhist monastery at company expense. A devout Shintoist and emperor worshiper himself, Idemitsu keeps a shrine in his conference room for praying in spare moments, and regularly leads new employees in a ceremonial bowing toward the Imperial Palace in Tokyo...
...They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly to the rules of modesty laid down in the Old Testament. Williamsburg has other devout Jews, but the Satmar congregation proudly regards itself as the true voice of Hasidism-the mystical, lyrical interpretation of the Jewish faith that developed in the ghettos of eastern Europe during the 18th century...
Both, before they met, had considered entering a religious order. A devout, devoted Queen who is two years Baudouin's senior, gentle, sweet-faced Fabiola plunged immediately into a punishing round of social work until the strain caused her miscarriage last year. To their delight, and courtiers' distress, even on state occasions Baudouin and Fabiola cannot help holding hands. Though she looks every inch a Queen in a Balenciaga gown and crown jewels, her people liked her best when she donned her nurse's uniform to race to Belgium's floods and recent mine disasters. Today...
Islam last week marked the end of the 1,333rd pilgrimage to Mecca. As 1,250,000 Moslems left for home, they carried with them from Mohammedanism's most devout observance the echoes of a noisy political feud between Saudi Arabia's monarch, King Saud, and Egypt's dictator, President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In the struggle for supremacy in the modern Arab world, the ancient ways of Saudi Arabia are slowly changing...