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...taken the Buddhist cure for his troubles (i.e., counting beads and keeping the Buddhist Sabbath), paled as he entered the death cell in Insein jail. Outside, in a glare of fireworks, the independence festivities had begun...
Once again December 7 fell upon a quiet Sabbath. Sitting amid the strewn wreckage of the Sunday newspapers, many a man & woman remembered with a sudden pang how the news had tornadoed in from Pearl Harbor on an identical afternoon in 1941. On Dec. 7, 1947, millions of Americans still remembered the sense of shock, the surge of challenge...
Witches' Sabbath...
...among us truly amazed that one John G. Winant could no longer endure this age [TIME, Nov. 10]? The marvel is that many more of us have not taken the same way out. We have lived through ten years of hell-the most diabolical "witches' sabbath" ever put on since the beginning of recorded time. Thirty million people, men, women & children, have been starved, tortured, shot, blown to bits, frozen, gassed*-murdered by every conceivable method of fiendish cruelty -mostly at the hands of "civilized, enlightened, cultured, progressive, democratic Christian nations." And the end is not yet. We have...
Seventh-Day Adventists take their separateness seriously. They do no "unnecessary" work on Saturdays (their Sabbath) and refuse to "strive" against their fellow men. During World War II the U.S. Army came to terms with them. Now U.S. labor is following suit...