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...Delhi fortnight ago, four couples demonstrated a simple solution: Delhi's first cut-rate mass wedding, with no fuss and no dowries at all. Members of the Jain sect, India's fifth biggest religious group (biggest: Hindus), the couples arrived quietly at a Jain temple. Only ostentation: the four brides' traditionally exquisite silk saris, and the bridegrooms' jeweled turbans. Stripped of party gaud, the go-minute wedding ceremony took on added religious significance, from the sound of the Sanskrit scripture chanted by four pandits to the odor of marigold garlands and the glow of incense...
...consulted religious authorities and legal experts; she agitated in Paris. Last week Néfissa's reforms, having been approved as one of the last of 300 decrees issued before the De Gaulle government's four-month emergency powers expired, became law. Only the Moslem Mozabite sect, whose 40,000 members are not quite ready to be yanked out of the Middle Ages, was exempted from it. For the rest of Algeria, compulsory child marriages will be forbidden, and courts will rule on divorce, custody over children and alimony. Though Néfissa's bill does...
...piano competition in Moscow, a limber Australian methodically breaking records for the mile. Still other scenes were charmingly sentimental ? the heir to an ancient throne promising himself in marriage to a commoner he first met on a tennis court, the new, young head of a populous religious sect resuming his daily classes at Harvard...
...Editor Himie Koshevoy to Washington to do a three-part series on John Foster Dulles that turned out more balanced than the Sun's bitterly anti-Dulles editorials. Down to Uruguay bustled Newshen Simma Holt to find Stefan Sorokin, leader of the buff-stripping, dynamiting Sons of Freedom sect of the Doukhobors, filed stories of the wealth Sorokin had gleaned from his followers in British Columbia...
...pacifist, Bible-quoting Amish sect is a survival from the 1690s, when it was founded by a Swiss named Jacob Ammann. In some of the 50 Amish settlements scattered around the U.S. and Canada, the old ways have yielded a little to the march of centuries, but the Amishmen of central Ohio have clung steadfastly to their traditional customs and costumes. They shun automobiles, movies, even home electricity. All married men grow beards, and all men, women and children wear black headdress in public. Farming and a few related trades such as blacksmithing and harness-making are the only approved...