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...months, Billy's mortal remains have lain in temporary storage while his two sisters, Polly and Miriam, fought with his executors over how much should be paid for his mausoleum, and by whom. Now the body has been entombed at last, in a $125,000 white granite shrine in a Westchester County, N.Y., cemetery. The inscription reads: "Billy Rose-the fabulous legend who is really real...
...show was well salted with hilarious vignettes of the beauty world. A beauty-counter huckster romanced his customers ("You would be the perfect type for Ultima"), a mincing makeup man proclaimed, "You now look as if you worshiped at the shrine of Aphrodite." One cosmetics-department manager confided: "If a product sold for 15?-a face cream-we could not give it away, we couldn't sell it for 15?. At $1, there'd be a certain group of customers; at $3, an even wider number of customers-certainly more than at 15?." Why? Summed up a psychoanalyst...
...after an onslaught to the Moslem cavalry of the Caliph Omar. In memory of Mohammed's heavenly visit, the victorious Moslems built the Dome of the Rock over the site of the Old Temple. More often than not, they tolerantly allowed Christians and Jews free access to the shrines of the city. In 1095, however, inspired by rumors of Islamic persecution of pilgrims, Pope Urban II proclaimed a holy crusade to reconquer Jerusalem for Christ. Four years later, mail-clad knights led by Godfrey of Bouillon took the city by storm and slaughtered every Moslem they could find-afterward...
...Some contemporary theologians are inclined to question whether the term holy can be applied to the sites. Properly speaking, they say, "holy" is a word that applies to God alone, and only by analogy can it be extended to man-made objects. "Any suggestion that God is in a shrine or in some carving is idolatry," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's School of Theology at Claremont. "What is holy is the presence of God, which is everywhere brought into focus by an act of love." In this way of thinking, God's presence...
...India is embroiled in another dispute with China, which began when two Indian diplomats were abused and expelled as spies for trying to photograph a roadside shrine in China. In angry response, Indian mobs attacked the Chinese embassy in New Delhi and beat up several Communist diplomats. Peking has since announced that "a Red area of rural revolutionary armed struggle has been established in India"-referring to a rebellious, backward strip of India along the Sikkim border...