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...land Brigham Young round wasn't promising. In fact it took a good deal of imagination and a lot of irrigation to grow anything more than sagebrush in the Utah desert. But Young was a prophet who revealed God's will to his group of Saints, and they took his word as they would God's, following him across the country to settle a land that was poor picking, even for coyotes. After a few years of settling and farming the great scheme began to grow, sending missionaries to all corners of the earth in search for more Saints...
...booming Detroit at least $50,000 a day is spend in concessionaires' factory cafeterias and rolling canteens. Biggest factor nationally is the F. B. Prophet Co., which grosses $50,000 per day, services 61 companies and some 250,000 workers in the U.S. Probably No. 1 local caterer is Trainor Bros. Inc., which serves 150,000 workers a day at 13 Detroit factories (including Briggs Mfg., Continental Motors, Fruehauf Trailer) via 20 trucks and trailers and 120 rolling canteens. Average price for a full meal: 35?. Though it takes four caterers to cover the whole of River Rouge...
...Ramakrishna (1836-86) barely knew how to read or write. To millions in India and elsewhere he is an authentic Incarnation of God-in a class with Buddha, Krishna, Christ. His unique claim to fame is that he was the first prophet in history actually to practice the ways not only of all the principal Hindu sects but also Christianity and Islam...
Thirteen centuries ago the Prophet Mohammed called upon his followers to make a haj (pilgrimage) to his native Mecca at least once in their lifetimes in order to gain favor in the eyes of Allah. For 13 centuries, pious Moslems have done so, and thereafter been honored as haji. From India some 11,000 pilgrims annually made the trip. But last week India's Moslems heard from Delhi that sea transport for the haj (only feasible route from India) was out for the duration. Reason: enemy subs in the Indian Ocean...
...Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist, little-heeded prophet of a return to the religious and political patterns of the Middle Ages, death came in the fullness of faith last week (in Boston...