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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...religious groups claim that civil marriages would break the unity of the nation, for it would be impossible to make certain of the Jewish background of potential wives and husbands. Because of this concern, remarriages after civil divorces which are not performed by the rabbis may result in "bastard" children, who, according to the religious groups, are out of the pale of Jewish life...

Author: By Diana L. Ordin, | Title: Israel After the War: A Sociologist Views His Country | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

Must we not justify them all? If a student has a right to break the conscription law, does this not give the Klan the right to disobey the Civil Rights Act? There is a confusion here between the tolerance of all speech, and the tolerance of all actions. I would argue that all promulgation of ideas by speech or press whether odious to us or not, should be tolerated without distinction; that we, as citizens, should defend someone's right to speak stupidly (even while we expose that studidity), that whatever "harm" may come from bad ideas...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Zinn V. Fortas | 12/14/1968 | See Source »

...after about 20 minutes. By slopping on water, Segal can rework the cast days or months later. "Originally, I thought casting would be fast and direct, like photography, but I found that I had to rework every square inch. I add or subtract detail, create a flow or break up an area by working with creases and angles. I'm shaping forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Presences in Plaster | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...Privileged Customer. Erratic manufacturing quality control and increasingly complex parts result in cars that break down far too often. The price of replacement parts rose 52% from 1960 to 1967. At last week's hearing, the Senators were particularly disturbed by the discrepancy between prices for work covered by auto manufacturers' warranties and prices on nonwarranty jobs. The automakers pay for the warranty work and they allow the repairman only a 25% profit margin. But on other repair jobs, the markup runs 40% and more. Garages also tend to offer discounts to such big customers as insurance companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AUTOS: THE MESS IN THE GARAGE | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...fleet orders; still the total was 27% higher than in November 1967. This month the automakers are scheduling about 8% more production than in last December. Ford Vice President Matt McLaughlin sums up the expansive mood: "It looks like the question will not be whether we'll break 9,500,000 or even 9,600,000 this year, but whether we can reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wheeling Toward 10 Million | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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