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When the final curtain fell, with Ivan Khovansky murdered and his son Prince Andrei, zealot Marfa and the entire sect of Old Believers singing a resounding funeral dirge around a pyre they had built for themselves, first-nighters were still shaky on plot details. But critics and audience were agreed that they had been introduced to three hours of blood-Warm music which, with familiarity, might become as well liked as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...
...Bombay, 85,000 members of the Aga Khan's Khoja Sect turned out to greet their spiritual leader when he arrived by plane for his first visit to India since 1946. The beaming father-in-law of Cinemactress Rita Hay worth was somewhat over the standard 66-lb. limit on passenger baggage. He flew in with 31 pieces of luggage weighing...
...scrolls in the U.S. also include the complete Book of Isaiah, a commentary on the Book of Habbakuk, and a manual of discipline for a minor Jewish sect. Scholars predict that complete analysis and translation of the scrolls will take many years. In order that experts all over the world may take part in this interpretive work, detailed photographs of the ancient scrolls so far unrolled have been made available by the American School of Oriental Studies...
Hafiz and Bashir are missionaries for the Moslem Ahmadiyya sect,* whose 1,000,000 members have made proselytizing one of their major works. Ahmadiyya Moslems already have mosques in Paris, London, Berlin and Chicago...
...upheld, though tentatively, the right of a Negro to live where he liked. It upheld his right to equal schooling, and to the vote-leaving the details to Southern legislatures. After first backing & filling on questions involving Jehovah's Witnesses, the court finally upheld the right of that sect to propagandize religious bigotry even on a man's front stoop; on a technicality of the law, a majority upheld the right of rabble-rousing Father Arthur Terminiello to incite a Chicago...