STORY: A Prophet Away From Home by Jacob Braude

Story title: A Prophet Away From Home
By: Jacob Braude


     They tell this story about Nikita Kruschev, the former heavy set
head of Russia. He went to his tailor and asked him to make him a three
piece suit. The tailor took the big man's extensive measurements, then
measured the cloth Kruschev had brought along, and said that he did not
have enough cloth for a three piece suit. All he could make of it would be
trousers and a coat.
     Krushshev was unhappy and took back his cloth. Within a few days
he had to make a visit to Yugoslavia, he went to a tailor, laid his bolt of
material on the computer and had the tailor measure him and it. The man
found that he could easily make Krushshev a stylish suit which  included
even a vest. Puzzled, Krushchev asked why it was that the Russian tailor
said he did not have enough cloth, while this tailor said he had more than
enough.
    "Well, " replied the Yugoslav tailor, " in Russia you are a bigger man
than you are here."
     Christ said the opposite:"No prophet is a big man in his won country."