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P: Minneapolis' annual "Aquatennial" wound up ten days of parades, stage and water shows (featuring the Aqua Follies, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, a water-ski circus and Rin-Tin-Tin) with Evangelist Billy Graham. In one Sunday-morning session he outpulled them all with an overflow audience of 21,000 and 500 "decisions for Christ." Aquatennial directors, said the show business weekly Variety, will try to bring him back next year. P: President Eisenhower signed into law a bill authorizing commercial airlines to grant reduced fares to clergymen on a "space available" basis, i.e., without advance reservations. P: The Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Religious has relaxed the rigors of "enclosure" to which contemplative orders of nuns are subject. Contemplatives are now divided into two classes: "major," permitted outside their convents for such reasons as an air raid, requisition of convent property, voting, surgery, or visits to medical specialists; "minor," permitted outside for these reasons, and also to educate the young. P: After eight months of collective bargaining, some 105 Jain priests from 21 temples in Ahmedabad. India won most of their demands (TIME. Nov. 7). The settlement includes 40 days' annual leave with pay (which may be accumulated up to three years), retirement pay to priests with over ten years of service. Temple authorities agreed to hire substitute priests on their days off, so that "the services of the gods are not interrupted."

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