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...setting is a Montreal ghetto, around 1925. The protagonist is an extraordinarily appealing little boy named David (Jeffrey Lynas). Struggling for possession of his young mind are his father (Len Birman) and his grandfather (Yossi Yadin). The former is a hustler, determined to abandon traditional Jewish ways and invent his way upward (creaseless pants, expandable cuff links−so you can roll up your sleeves without unlinking them). The latter is a sweet-spirited, loving junk dealer, who is equally determined to imbue David with the belief that an Orthodox faith can still serve successfully as a guide to existence...
...retired in 1968. Bronk served as a science adviser to Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy while he headed the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. When the Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957, Bronk sounded a cold war alarm and warned Americans to abandon "shorter work weeks and longer coffee breaks," lest they fall behind the Soviet scientific establishment...
Tomorrow at 10 a.m. on the gridiron behind Yale Stadium, Harvard's political scientists will abandon their arm chairs and literary disputes to do battle with their Yale counterparts in their 2nd annual touch football game...
When heavy street fighting forced the Associated Press to abandon its headquarters in Beirut's Kantari district, one staffer left a note pinned to the wall. "Welcome to our guests," it said in flowery Arabic. "We hope our guests will protect the contents of the office because they are a trust in their hands. Thank you." Last week the A.P. reporters returned and found that somebody had left a note underneath the first one. "We are deeply sorry," it said, in equally flowery Arabic, "but we damaged the building because there was a sniper...
TIME'S Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Marmon, both veterans of battlefront coverage in Viet Nam, had a ringside seat in TIME'S office in the seafront hotel district. They too had to abandon the office to the street fighters for almost a week. Prager evacuated his wife and four children to safety in Athens, Marmon moved his family to London. Returning to the office last week, they found that it had taken about 30 hits, mainly from .50-cal. armor-piercing machine-gun bullets. The desks were covered with shards of glass and plaster...