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...Negroes jammed two of Montgomery's largest churches and adjacent streets to savor their triumph. Appearing before each group in turn was the spiritual architect of that triumph, the Rev. Dr. King. He was too wise to be triumphant; he read to each congregation a statement that should loom large in the Negro's long, patient fight for equality...
Ridd attributes his extra-sensory powers solely to concentration while at the loom. With contemplation he is able to learn "the innermost secrets of life." Concentration enables the Chief to attain "harmony with the universe, and then all things are possible." According to Ridd, the more one weaves, the more he will elevate his mentality, leading ultimately to infinite peace of mind and the fountain of all knowledge...
Ridd first became interested in the work while demonstrating hooked rugs in a Pasadena department store in an effort to promote sales of yarn. A customer suggested that he try to make a Persian rug. With no instruction, he assembled a loom from four sticks and a quantity of seine twine. A rug-maker showed him how to tie a Persian knot and Ridd began his project...
After months of work on the rug, the Chief discovered that both the strings of the loom and the knots of the yarn must be very loose, with seven strings to the inch. With the tension of the loom eased, everything then unfolded, and he began his excursion into mysticism. When the rug, with its prediction of World War II, was completed Ridd took it to a connoisseur. The expert refused to believe that Ridd had woven it, and from the design of the work judged it to be from the seventh century of Persian rug-making...
...vanities and eccentricities will become merely a playground for biographers. Even his role in international affairs will seem neither so mischievous as his critics now think, nor so important as his admirers believe. History may not judge Nehru by his foreign policy, which, because it is essentially negative, may loom less large as time goes...