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Just as the killers were fleeing the gruesome scene, police arrived, forcing them back inside. Then, either by mistake or by suicidal design, a bomb or grenades carried by one of the terrorists exploded inside the synagogue, killing both of them and dismembering nearly everyone inside. Said Avram Albohayre, general secretary of the synagogue's foundation: "Pieces of the bodies are all over the place. It is barbaric." The bloody toll in the congregation: 22 worshipers dead, reportedly including seven rabbis...
Businessmen complain that they are losing money because they cannot raise prices fast enough. The exchange rate, for example, is modified daily at 1 p.m. "We don't alter our prices accordingly, so on every sale we automatically lose between ½ % to 1½% a day," says Avram Kalisky, owner of a Jerusalem computer store. Many Israelis make ends meet by overdrawing their checking accounts between paydays, but the privilege can cost up to 19% interest a month. Others juggle their money from one account to another to avoid the costly bank charges. The inflationary cycle is self-perpetuating, since there...
...talking, two of his employees at Fay Foto, two photographers, threaded through the crowd taking pictures of the reunion class. Finally someone suggested that since this was, after all, Harry's fiftieth year, someone should take a picture of him. So they stood Harry between President Bok and Avram Goldberg, president of Stop and Shop and a member of the reunion organizing committee. Everyone smiled for the camera, and then Harry went back to talking about how this was his fiftieth year...
Precise drug dosages for individuals are undoubtedly years off, for Kalman's is a counsel of pharmacological perfection. Nonetheless, he and two fellow pharmacologists at Stanford, Drs. Avram Goldstein and Lewis Aronow, have given it considerable impetus with their exhaustive, 884-page study, Principles of Drug Action (Hoeber Medical Division of Harper & Row). The differences among patients in their reactions to drugs may be caused by race, individual heredity, personal idiosyncrasy, or allergic reaction. Enzyme deficiencies and abnormal hemoglobins are found among Negroes and some Mediterranean peoples. In as many as 10% of Negro males, normal doses...
...public-interest television, began its second year on an encouragingly upbeat note (TIME, Dec. 6). Birth and Death, PBL's cinéma vérité documentary on natural childbirth and death by cancer, won critical acclaim, and the staff was jubilant. Said Executive Director Av (Avram) Westin: "This year we go for broke...