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...Life. What explains the prosperity of Islam? One reason, certainly, is its simplicity. Islam has neither hierarchy nor organization: its creed is a simple affirmation that there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet. Undemanding in doctrine, Islam calls upon its adherents, if they wish to be rewarded at the Last Judgment, to praise God five times a day while kneeling toward Mecca, fast during the holy month of Ramadan, abstain from alcohol and pork, give alms, and, if possible, make the hajj. Man's sexual nature is amply served by Islam, which permits four wives...
...remaining Hindus still lead fear-filled lives, saved only by the knowledge that each side holds hostages from the other; each regards the other as a more immediate menace than Red China. In riots last year 4,000 from both groups were killed after a holy hair from the prophet Mohammed's head was stolen from a Kashmir mosque. The two nations' conflicting claims to Kashmir have created a diplomatic impasse that may outlast the East-West stalemate on Berlin...
...room with a Russian in former. His mail goes through so many censors that "the letters get worn out." The level of instruction is disappointing, the lessons ruled by dogma. Bureaucracy is so dismayingly dominant in Soviet life that Kafka seems to have replaced Marx and Lenin as the prophet of Communism...
...Norman Mailer is not the best U.S. novelist of his time, he is certainly the most conspicuous. No literary cocktail party or TV panel is complete without him, whether he appears in his role of spokesman for the intellectual left or as prophet of the new morality...
...Center with an intestinal ailment; Belgium's King Baudouin, 34, in the royal palace in Brussels, suffering from infectious hepatitis; Richard Cardinal Cushing, 69, in Boston's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, following surgery for removal of a portion of his intestines; David Oman McKay, 91, President, Prophet and Seer of 2,000,000 Mormons, in Salt Lake City's Latter-day Saints' Hospital for the third time in eight months for treatment of a weak heart and congested lung; Actress Patricia Neal, 39, last year's Oscar winner as the housekeeper...