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Recently, the people of Ueno were called on to vote (in a by-election) for a representative in the upper house of Japan's Diet. On election day there was also a fireworks display at a nearby Shinto shrine. The local political boss canvassed the villagers, asked those who wanted to see the fireworks to hand over their admission tickets to the polls, so that Ueno might still have a patriotically large number of ballots cast. In one ward a bulletin was circulated demanding that people who did not intend to vote bring their tickets to the ward leader...
...jungle shrine in Ceylon last week, a group of local sadhus celebrated a rite of Hindu holy men: walking barefoot over a bed of glowing coals. To the Rev. Eric Robinson, a British Methodist missionary, it was the opportunity he had long been waiting for. Pulling off his shoes and socks, he stepped on the coals, walked the length of the burning pit himself. The doctor's verdict: severe burns on the feet, which confined Missionary Robinson to his bed for a week...
Fortnight ago, when thieves broke into Brooklyn's Regina Pacis shrine and stole two diamond-studded crowns (TIME, June 9), Monsignor Angelo R. Cioffi made a public appeal. If the thieves would return his church's treasures, he would "forgive and forget." Through the week his parishioners, who had given their money and jewels for the crowns, prayed earnestly for their return...
...shrine's proudest ornaments were two jeweled, gold crowns, insured at $100,000, and made from the contributions, in jewels and money, of some 12,000 people. The fame of the crowns spread. Last winter Msgr. Cioffi took them to Rome, had them blessed by the Pope. Lately, they have been attached to a large painting of the Virgin above the altar. Except during important church ceremonies, the painting and crowns were locked behind a strong bronze grillwork...
...nuptial Mass, the crowns were gone. In the night, thieves had sawed out a section of the grille, reached in for the famous crowns. All that remained were a few diamonds and a broken piece of mounting, wrenched loose but left forgotten on the floor of Mary's shrine...