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...plus 149 days (the period a soul spends in purgatory) after the death of a Grand Lama, priests throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha. But for the incarnation there...
Last summer, probably as a political move by anti-Chinese and anti-Panchen Lama groups, an infant Dalai Lama was reported discovered-by no means the first since the old Dalai Lama died. Though such an infant is long overdue. its authenticity had not been confirmed last week. Tibet was presumably, for the first time since anyone could recall, godless...
...killing all. Prostrate, young Prince Ludwig was rushed to the home of friends, Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten, relatives of King George VI. Additional news from Ostend added the most horrifying note to the tragedy. Searchers poking in the charred wreck of the plane stumbled on the remains of an infant, prematurely delivered when the plane crashed, lying beside the crumpled body of Grand Duchess Cecile...
...content himself with conditioning munitions factories so that bombs would not go off till they had been properly dropped on foreigners. By 1919 aviation was boisterously adolescent but air conditioning, though becoming essential for such industries as rayon, cinema film, chewing gum, chocolate candy, was still an infant...
Within 72 hours the infant's blackened eyes were healed, his pneumonia gone, his cheeks unscarred. So, four years ago, testified Dr. Michael J. Horan and two colleagues, before a Chicago tribunal investigating the sanctity of Mother Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). The tribunal declared that the triple healing was "a wonder performed by supernatural power as sign of some special mission, and explicitly ascribed to God." In Manhattan last fortnight declared Dr. Horan, a Catholic: "The average man does not believe in miracles...