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...July 4, in the town of Benson, Ariz, (pop. 2,600), all the members of the sect called Full Gospel, Inc. suddenly vanished...
Then Warren Burke came to the office of the county attorney to complain that his wife and four children, members of the sect, had disappeared, and he had a good idea where they were. Deputy Sheriff Ray Coffey went with Burke to the Full Gospelers' houses and found them sealed up, with newspapers over doors and windows, keyholes plugged, plastic covers over cooling outlets. Neighbors remembered the sounds of digging a while back, and it began to look as if the Gospelers had all gone underground...
...letter from a sect member to a friend explained that "the Lord told us through prophecy that soon there will be devastation on earth and one-third of all the people will be destroyed. He is warning the people through civil defense today as he warned them through Noah when the Flood came." After a Russian atomic attack, to be preceded by a divine tip-off in the form of "an iceberg appearing in warm waters," the Full Gospelers planned to emerge from their hiding places to win what was left of the world for the Lord...
...dedicated sect of Shavians will rush off like lemmings to see Getting Married, will I or nill I, simply because they want to know how it looks on a stage, and they may never get another chance. But less fanatic citizens are earnestly advised to stay away from this production, since the Tufts Arena Theater is not equipped to do even minimal justice to a play which is inferior Shaw at best...
...better to encounter a deadly poisonous snake than a woman," say the Buddhist priests of the Shugen sect, who worship the Eight Dragon God, Hachidai Ryuo, at the temple of Japan's Mount Sanjogatake. For 1,300 years the Shugen monks have seen to it that no female climbed their mountain or entered their Ryusenji Temple. Undisturbed, they practiced their ascetic disciplines-walking barefoot through fires of logs and leaves while reciting sutras, plunging into freezing pools, hanging by their ankles over vertiginous cliffs while confessing their sins. (A favorite fillip of the monks is to dangle novices carelessly...