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For 51 days, the Rev. Jesse J. Ivie, a traveling Ozarks evangelist, fasted in his cottage at Cherryville, Mo., hoping that his sacrifice would bring him a special sign from God (TIME, June 9). He refused to see doctors, slowly grew weaker. "If the Lord wants me to die," he...
He fasted and prayed for a day, then announced that he would intensify his one-man defiance of apartheid, and force authorities to jail him. "I would be happier in any other country," Gandhi said sadly, "but my duty lies here."
All week able, earnest Monsignor Franz Jachym, 40, prayed and prepared for his ceremonial consecration as Archbishop Coadjutor of Vienna, a post which would put him next in line to Theodore Cardinal Innitzer, Austria's Roman Catholic primate. Saturday night he fasted. Sunday morning, pale and strained, he donned...
Nevertheless, the voters went right on liking prohibition anyhow. The state's church-going United Drys (many of whom fasted and prayed for victory at the polls) were fiercely proud of living in a prohibition state.* So, naturally, were the bootleggers. And many an Oklahoma drinker liked prohibition too...
Yet Gandhi's weapon contained a measurable threat of violence in India. When Gandhi fasted, Britons sometimes dared not keep him in jail, lest a massive anger at his death in their hands engulf India. "I always get my best bargains behind prison bars," he once chuckled. When Gandhi...