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Like the Hutterites and other German pietist sects, the Amanas came to the U.S. from the Rhineland to escape state and established-church persecution for their beliefs, soon followed their prophet-leaders out to till 18,000 acres (since increased to 25,000) of rich Iowa prairie; they set up blanket mills and furniture shops, quarried sandstone and dug red clay for bricks to build austere homes and churches...
...night like one stricken with fever." Hussein's radio labeled Nasser the "new pharaoh," "Communism's first agent in the Middle East . . . pilgrimaging to his Mecca in Moscow time after time," and Bedouin signs proclaimed, at parades honoring the King: "Hussein is the son of the Prophet, Nasser the son of a postman...
...Venice's International Festival of contemporary music last year (TIME, Oct. 6), Stravinsky got his wish. The composer's Threni, id est Lamentationes ]eremiae Prophetae (i.e., Threnody, Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah) is a complex, 33-minute work for six vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra, and the bass part, ranging from middle B-flat to low E-flat, is the most difficult of all. At Venice, says Conductor Robert Craft, who rehearsed Threni's chorus, the starring role should have been the tenor, "but there was no question that Oliver ran away with all the honors...
...guns inspected passports carefully to weed out any infidel. As the pilgrims rounded the last bend and saw Mecca white and dazzling in the desert sun, their chant burst into a roar: "La illaha ilia Allah, Muhammad rasulu Allah [There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah...
...pilgrimage is one of the five "pillars" of Islam enjoined on all Moslems. The others: prayer, almsgiving, abstention from food or water during the days (but not the nights) of Ramadan, witness to the oneness of Allah and the pre-eminence of his prophet, Mohammed...