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...years after the man whose name became a synonym for traitor was tried and shot for his Nazi collaboration, Norwegians learned the whereabouts of Vidkun Quisling's ashes. Long locked up by the Norwegian government in the fear that neo-Nazis might turn a burial site into a shrine, Quisling's ashes were finally released two years ago and laid to rest by his widow Maria in the family plot near Skien...
Pulling himself up out of his wheelchair and hobbling down the hospital corridor on crutches, Mario Wallenda, 22, whose legs were paralyzed in a 35-ft. fall from the high wire at the Shrine Circus in Detroit eight months ago, announced that he would leave for Sarasota, Fla., to join his father, the head of the famous Flying Wallendas troupe. Two other members of the troupe were killed in the accident, but Mario has kept his nerve. "I am a circus man," he said, "and I want to get back into it even if I have to ride the high...
...upon retirement. But Idemitsu boasts that old workers are never pressured to retire and bad ones are never fired; even chronic drunkards are merely sent to dry out for a few months in a Buddhist monastery at company expense. A devout Shintoist and emperor worshiper himself, Idemitsu keeps a shrine in his conference room for praying in spare moments, and regularly leads new employees in a ceremonial bowing toward the Imperial Palace in Tokyo...
Path to the Shrine. Since then, a million words of argument have been presented by distinguished lawyers, including former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, hired by the Cambodians, Britain's onetime Attorney General, Sir Frank Soskice, and Belgium's Henri Rolin, in the service of the Thais. Cambodia's case: a path leads from Cambodia directly to the shrine of Siva, the god to which the temple was dedicated; in 1930 and 1953, Cambodian officials went to the temple on pilgrimage picnics, establishing a sovereignty of sorts. Furthermore, an old French colonial map puts the temple...
...supporters." In retaliation, Saud, who once financed a $5,000,000 plot to kill Nasser, this year barred delivery of the kiswa, the canopy for the holy Black Stone in Mecca that Egyptian craftsmen had spent almost a year weaving. Making a new 800-yd. embroidered covering for the shrine has been a prerogative of Cairo each year since the 17th century, but months ago Saud announced that because last year's kiswa "was made of inferior cloth" and quickly faded, Egypt need not bother to send...