Word: salem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare mountainside building in the Salem* district of the Indian state of Madras, 35 Indian ascetics live and pray together. In the tradition of the Indian sanyasis (holy men), they wear coarse cotton robes dyed a bright saffron. At mealtimes they eat a strict vegetarian diet of tapioca, rice and lentils. When they chant their prayers, they sit cross-legged on the floor. They wear no shoes or sandals, for Indian custom forbids any footgear inside a holy place...
...Father Philip decided that the Benedictines, oldest monastic order in the Catholic Church, with their traditions of communal work as well as preaching & teaching, were best fitted for bringing a new understanding of Christianity to India. Five years ago he transferred to the order and started work on the Salem monastery. Then he went to Europe for two years of Benedictine training. This spring, with two Belgian colleagues as advisers, he was able to open the monastery as a full-fledged Benedictine foundation...
There was a flood of applications from schools (for both commercial and noncommercial permits), radio stations, newspapers, theater interests, a coal company, a real estate company, a tobacco company, several insurance companies and religious organizations. Some well-known names were also in the running: Mary Pickford Rogers, in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Bing Crosby Enterprises, in Spokane, Wash.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney & friends, in Indianapolis; Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, in Springfield, Mass. Denver, which now has no TV, is the biggest plum. Among the hopeful applicants: Comedian Bob Hope and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton...
Today marks one of the high spot the reunion week. At 9:15 this morn busses will leave the Union for the Essex Country Club in Manchester. Certain busses marked "Tour of Salem" will a on route for those who have signed to see this historic little town morning will be full of golf and too at the country club. At 11 a.m. shut busses will leave the club for sing Beach, for any swimmers in the crowd. Other vehicles will run to the Manchester Yacht Club for the nautical-minds...
During a visit to their old friend, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson, British Diplomat Sir Gladwyn Jebb and his wife climbed into an ox-drawn cart for a tourists' tour of Lincoln Village in New Salem. The tour ended when the driver lost control of the oxen and the cart lumbered into a big tree, leaving the passengers shaken but undamaged. Said Sir Gladwyn: "I think we got out rather luckily considering that this has been our first try at midwest sightseeing...