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There were plenty of protests when the Y first opened. Orthodox rabbis complained that the building would be a center for Christian missions, and veiled Moslem women paraded the streets protesting against "this proselytizing organization." Jerusalem's Latin-rite Roman Catholic patriarch denounced the Y in a pastoral letter. Since most of the members in the early days were British civil servants and Arab Christians, Palestinian Jews regarded it as a center for Arab espionage during Israel's war for independence. After the city was partitioned in 1948, membership dropped...
Certificates for Christians. The Y goes out of its way to respect Jewish customs. Its restaurant is closed only one day a year, Yom Kippur, and bar mitzvahs are regularly reported in the monthly bulletin. Although the Moslem chef does not keep a kosher kitchen, bacon, purchased from a Jewish butcher, is served only on request. Orthodox rabbis are pleased that there are separate hours for men and women to use the building's swimming pool, which is the only one in Jerusalem that observes the rigid Halakah prohibition against mixed bathing...
...half bad, giving the vote to 80,000 middle-and upper-class electors. While that is a tiny percentage in a total population of 110 million, most of those millions are not only illiterate but totally ignorant of political issues. With heavy support in rural areas, where many Moslem electors particularly disapprove of a woman's candidacy and where Ayub's economic reforms have helped more than in the cities, Ayub is still expected to win the election by some 60% of the vote...
...Million Cheer. Thus the pilgrimage grew grand. On hand at Bombay's Santa Cruz airport to meet the Pope were India's diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, stately, goateed Moslem Vice President Zakir Hussain (wearing white Congress caps that paired with Paul's white skullcap), and the country's leading industrialist, J.R.D. Tata...
Until the Moslem-Hindu partition that created Pakistan in 1947, the Adamjee family owned a jute mill near Calcutta and ran a thriving export business. Then partition left Pakistan with 42% of the world's jute crop and no jute mills. To Adamjee, a Moslem, his duty was clear. He liquidated his substantial holdings in India, moved his entire family to Pakistan, where the grateful government helped him finance the new nation's first jute mill. Today, the family's assets are $75 million. In West Pakistan, Adamjee's two brothers have constructed a $6.3 million...