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...Glitter. Guarded by bank-vault-type doors, electric-eye burglar alarms and "footmen" whose blue-and-silver waistcoats bulge with shoulder-holster Lugers, the new Schatzkam-mer operates with little fanfare. "Too much publicity," explains Director Hans Thoma, "might only attract some fool Rififi who might take a crack at the wealth. The public should come gradually, not because they are intrigued by the glitter, but because of the artistic pleasure it gives to see so much precious beauty assembled...
...Doubting Thomas, the disciple who is best known for his verification of Jesus' resurrection by touching the wounds in his hands (John 20: 25-28) was a favorite of Gnostic writers, who attributed to him extensive missionary journeys in Persia and India. The Mar Thoma Church in southern India claims him as its founder...
...voters of Okinawa and the other Ryukyu islands chose a new legislature in the first general election in two years, the Red-run Minren Party campaigned with arrogant confidence, demanding that the U.S. fold up its bases and go home. The conservative Democratic Party and Independent Jugo Thoma, U.S.-appointed chief executive of the Okinawan government, doggedly defended their cooperation with the U.S. administration, pointed to schools built and roads abuilding. The Socialist Masses Party concentrated on throwing sake parties, where the rice wine flowed freely...
When the returns came in. both the U.S. and the Reds got a shock. The big winner: the bibulous Socialists, who captured nine of the legislature's 29 seats. The pro-American Democrats skidded Irom 17 seats to seven, and only one of Thoma's supporters was elected. But the Communist Minren won only five seats, half the number they expected. "A stunning blow," confessed Saichi Nakeshi. Red mayor of Naha. "The people disliked the idea of being used as a tool of international Communism," commented the Socialists' snaggle-toothed Tsumichio Asato...
...Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, in South India (membership 250,000), claims the Apostle Thomas as its founder...