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...mosque of Hazrat Bal. On holy days, the prophet's hair is tenderly removed from its resting place, attached to a chain and locked around the waist of one or the other of five Bandey brothers, the hereditary keepers who alone are permitted to touch the sacred relic and show it to Moslem worshipers in the mosque's great quadrangle...
...Kashmiri government offered a princely reward-$21,000 outright plus a $105 lifetime annual pension-to anyone who "traces or helps in tracing" the relic. From New Delhi came two senior Indian police officials to help authorities in Srinagar, which is in the Indian-held half of disputed Kashmir. In Pakistan, India's Prime Minister Nehru was blamed as "the real thief," though the press also hinted that the "satanic" plot might have been "conceived in the so-called intellectual cells in a faraway Western capital," meaning Washington. Indians were equally sure that the affair was a Pakistani scheme...
Then, at week's end, mourning throngs flung away their black banners and started dancing in the streets. The hair of the prophet had been found, abandoned in the grounds of the mosque. Radio Kashmir blared joyful music as pilgrims waited for the news that the sacred relic had been wrapped again in three cloth bags, placed inside three wooden boxes, locked in its cabinet in the innermost of four cells, and was carefully watched over by four badly shaken guards...
...scholarship. It is a provocative amalgam of insight and adventure. It is the act of finding an inch-long fragment of pottery on the dull grey desert, and it is the art of seeing a whole camp site in the broken shard. It is the ability to hold that relic in the hand and hear in the mind's ear an echo of some forgotten language, almost understood...
Last week elegant crowds gathered once more beneath the Nationaltheater's grand portico for a night at the opera. A $20 million restoration project had converted the relic of one of Europe's finest opera houses into what is very likely the best opera house in the world, and in an opening festival that will not end until New Year's Eve, the general German mourning over the assassination of President Kennedy could cancel only a single night's perform ance. Tickets sold quickly for as much as $125 a performance, and though a feeble Meistersinger...