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...After thinking it over for several hours, General Chang reluctantly agreed, became Premier and front man for the tough reform regime of General Park Chung Hee. Scarcely six weeks later, accused of obstructing the revolution. General Chang was put under house arrest.* Last week, dressed in the shabby white robe of a common laborer, he was sentenced to the gallows by a five-man military court in Seoul...
...light cotton robe, and geta (clogs), delighted the crowd by thumping a great drum...
...Norwegian Storting (Parliament). But it was when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe, leopardskin cap with monkey tails, a necklace of leopard's teeth-Luthuli spoke for all that is best in black Africa, showing an intellectual's perspective, the devoutness of a mission-educated Christian, and the faith in nonviolence that has always marked his career...
...Stephen Bremer, calls "two rather nondescript services," on Christmas Eve. Next week the Rev. Mr. Bremer and his congregation will celebrate the birth of Christ with four choral Eucharists, at which all the prayers and responses will be sung in plain chant. Instead of the austere black robe that his predecessor wore, the Rev. Mr. Bremer will dress in full Eucharistic vestments-alb, stole, maniple and chasuble, all in white. St. Mark's altar will bear six candles instead of two; candles, as well as a Cross, will be carried in processions that begin and end the services...
...seldom wore anything more ecclesiastical than a discreet dark suit, more than half of the ministers now use a clerical collar. In 1941, according to a survey conducted by the United Lutheran Church in America, 1.500 out of 2,000 of their ministers wore either a simple black robe or no robe at all at services; now two-thirds of them dress in either cassock, surplice and stole or full Eucharistic vestments. In San Francisco, Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike is urging his priests to don chasubles of traditional liturgical color for Communion services...