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...from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon's Chi Hoa marshaling yard, his wife lights candles before an altar adorned with a gaudy bas-relief of a train steaming around a mountain...
...enough when the kid became a Buddhist," said one Rockefeller aide. "But a Democrat? That's going too far." Actually, John D. Rockefeller IV, 28, never became a Buddhist while he was studying Japanese culture on $30 a month in Kyoto, though he is committing the other heresy. Young "Jay," whose Uncle Nelson runs the New York Statehouse and Uncle Winthrop is running for the one in Arkansas, is filing as a candidate for the West Virginia house of delegates-as a Democrat. At present, Jay is a neighborhood worker in Action for Appalachian Youth, a field that...
...mostly Buddhist Ceylon last week, Sunday became just another working day. By act of Parliament, stores and government offices will henceforth close each month on four Buddhist feasts called poya days, corresponding roughly to the phases of the moon. The change amounts to a rejection of the custom of Sunday observance that has been standard in Ceylon since 1815, when the island was a British colony. But it does not really bespeak a trend; elsewhere, surprisingly, Sunday is gaining favor, even among countries that have religious reasons for preferring another...
Advice in Pubs. A story in the Daily News sheds unexpected light on Buddhist suicides by fire: "A 16-year-old apprentice monk soaked himself with gasoline and burned himself to death. He was believed to have taken his life out of discontent with his superior, who had reproached him of listening too much to radio music...
...until this fall did the Maryland Court of Appeals finally bow to the "inevitable result" of the 1961 Torcaso decision. Then it bowed with a vengeance. The court reversed the murder conviction of a Buddhist named Lidge Schowgurow, who claimed that he had been denied equal protection while on trial for killing his wife (TIME, Oct. 22). Since Buddhists do not believe in God, he argued that members of his faith were automatically excluded from his jury. Even though no Buddhist would-be jurors were involved, the court upheld Schowgurow and voided the "belief in God" requirement for jurors throughout...