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...West Virginia hills, the Hare Krishnas build a palace...
...Hare Krishnas are known for their bald heads, saffron robes and their own showy style of Hinduism. Known, but not necessarily beloved. Since 1966, with beads, drums and clanging cymbals, they have chanted and boom-cha-boomed their way down the streets of American cities and harried hordes of airport travelers with pleas for donations. So importunate are they, in fact, that a federal district judge in Syracuse has just declared that some of their fund raisers "engaged in a widespread and systematic scheme of accosting, deceit, misrepresentation and fraud on the public...
...they are showing off some of their acquired wealth, and in an unlikely setting. Above Moundsville, in the West Virginia hills four miles up a rutted road from the nearest highway, 60 Hare Krishnas, who taught themselves to be artisans by trial and error, built an incredible peacock-hued "Palace of Gold." It is the first installment of what the settlement's leader envisions as a "spiritual Disneyland where people can come and be amazed." Amazed was one word for the 15,000 disciples and tourists attending the Labor Day weekend "grand opening." The festival also marked Janmastami, birthday...
...Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Indian businessman who, late in life, took monastic vows and in 1965 arrived in New York City to launch the Hare Krishna movement. But the swami died three years ago, and the building was turned into a samadh (shrine) in his memory. Two devotional rooms contain life-size (and unnervingly lifelike) statues of the founder made of resin...
...father may like to dress his women in brief bunny suits with cute cottontails, but that does not make Christie Hefner, 27, a hare less rabid on the subject of women's rights. Hefner, a vice president of dad's Playboy Enterprises, says she came to the convention from Chicago as an alternate Carter delegate "to lobby for the minority platform on abortion and try to make a difference on women's issues." That is exactly what she did, dawn to dusk and gavel to gavel, while many another delegate was hopping around town. "People...