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Died. Florence ("Big Fanny") Storgoff, 56, massive (240 Ibs.) leader of the Canadian Doukhobors' Sons of Freedom, a small (3,000 members) but fanatic religious sect that broke away from the more peaceable "Douks" after they emigrated from Russia in 1899, and is forever giving the authorities fits by squatting on government land, ignoring public schools and legalized marriage, and burning their homes and parading around naked whenever police try to enforce the law; of cancer; in Vancouver...
...being the world's only airline to be run by an honest-to-Allah sheik. The man responsible for the line's rapid and unsubsidized climb is Najib Salim Alamuddin, 55, who inherited the title of sheik from a family long prominent in Lebanon's Druze sect, an Islamic offshoot founded in the llth century. Educated at the American University of Beirut, suave, sophisticated Sheik Alamuddin was running his own telecommunications company when he was asked to take over Middle East Airlines...
Sexy Castanets. Posing as a ladies' club president, Anna Russell introduces a series of performers, all of whom turn out to be herself. "Deep down within every one of us there is something stagnant that is dormant," she says. Across the footlights, the sect guffaws. "I do want you to give our artist a welderful wuncum," she pleads. The sect shrieks...
...obedience to Taylor's new dogma, Exclusive landlords in the Scottish town of Peterhead evicted non-Brethren tenants; Exclusive fishermen fired crewmen who did not belong to the sect. Members of the sect were forced to leave their jobs in Midlands factories because Taylor's rules forbade them to join unions. Marriages have foundered on the doctrine of separation; in Walsall, for example, Businessman Leslie Pearson and his father-in-law Fred erick Jessop publicly complained that their wives would not even speak to them when the two men left the sect. In Staffordshire, two spinster sisters...
...about half the Brethren have left the sect rather than obey Taylor; one Tory M.P. has heard so many tales of hardship from his constituents that last month he asked for a Home Office investigation of the sect. But difficult as their new way of life may be, the rest of the Brethren have followed Taylor, convinced that to live with the Lord means not to live with other...