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Car-Borne Catnaps. A ruggedly handsome man, Romney is a Mormon leader who neither smokes, drinks (not even tea or coffee) nor swears, and who gives 10% of his annual income (which amounted to $250,000 last year) to his church. Before he announced his gubernatorial candidacy last week, he...
¶ A pair of Protestant nuns from Darmstadt, members of an order that works with the Jews in repentance for Germany's crimes against them, who fasted on Yom Kippur and read selections from the Jewish prayer book. ¶ A Baptist minister, the Rev. Dwight Baker, who was worried...
The partition plan went through, but Vo fought on-in his own odd way. Every July, in sorrowful memory of the month when partition took place, he fasted for a week. This July, Vo vanished from his pressroom corner; newsmen remembered that he had talked of going on an "indefinite...
The Great Debate. Meanwhile, all India had gravely debated whether Desai's fast was in the true Gandhian tradition. Gandhi, who stoutly maintained that his own methods of fasting were "noncoercive," regarded fasting as a form of self-sacrifice and renunciation so extreme that it astounded one's...
Indians judge fasts severely. For one thing, the faster should be prominent enough so that if he dies, the shock will affect many consciences. His motives must be worthy: a Communist leader recently fasted for three days, but seeing that no one cared, gave up; police arrested a faster outside...