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...commercial success, of a village fair. Their personalities, naturally, all prove to be completely different, and most of them have strange occupations. One is the most famous beautician in France. Another is a lonely hearts journalist, writing under the name Aunt Nicole. The others are a ship captain, a priest, and a window-washer...
...eight-month controversy between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. ended when the Soviet government issued a visa to the Rev. Louis F. Dion of Worcester, Mass., a Roman Catholic Assumptionist priest, who will replace a fellow Assumptionist expelled by the Soviets in March (TIME, March 14). Father Dion will minister to American Catholics in Moscow. Less than 24 hours after his visa was issued, the U.S. granted a visa to Archbishop Boris of the Russian Orthodox Church, who was forced to leave the U.S. earlier this year when his temporary visa expired...
...flashed the green light for construction of the Priest Rapids and Wanapum Dams on the Columbia River. They will be built by the Grant County (Wash.) Public Utility District, which had to fight objections of the state power commission before it could take on the job. The P.U.D. will share the $361 million cost of the Priest River Dam with the Federal Government, making the dam the first under President Eisenhower's public-private "partnership" policy...
...temper of a secularist age is penetrating even to Ahmedabad: some Jain priests have recently been seen to remove their masks in public, to eat and drink in restaurants and to use lamps without thought for the safety of moths. Last week things went even farther. One hundred of the boldest priests met and announced that, since intercession with the gods is industrial employment like any other, they had formed themselves into the Ahmedabad Jain Temple Priests Trade Union. From temple committees they demanded: an $8 minimum monthly wage, one day off a week, seven days' paid sick leave...
Last week the sentences were passed. For the ex-priest, four months in prison; for the mother superior of a Dutch convent school where Anneke had once stayed, six months (the other mother superior was acquitted); for Elizabeth Van Moorst. a year; for her sister Geertruida, eight months. But Elizabeth and Geertruida were nowhere to be found. And Anneke Beekman is still missing...