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...Stanley Cave Jean Mayer, Roger R.D. Revelle, Peter Elder. Martin Kilson William Alfred, J.Q. Wilson Robert Lowell, Robert Kiely. Lawrence Kohlberg. Lawrence Wylie jeremy Sabloff, Jeffrey Brian. J.P. Russo, J.J. Lingane, Albert Sacks and Albert Lord, John K. Fairbank. John M. Ward. Paul A. Freund and Paul A. Cantor. Francis M. and Paul M. Bator. Jack M. Stein and Christa Saas. Ross G. Terrill. Arthur Maass. The list is long, and could be longer. Our Christmas feelings grow still stronger, Yet fatigue is mightier than the pen, We could go all night and even thenFinal thought
...unions' demand for an excess profits tax is a far stickier matter. To A.F.L.-C.I.O. Economist Arnold Cantor, the issue is simple equity. "The income of wage earners is the wage; the income of business is profits," he says -and if one is limited the other should be too. By almost any measure, however, profits are not now excessive but depressed. U.S. corporate earnings after taxes, at an annual rate of $46 billion in this year's second quarter, were actually lower than in 1965. Many economists agree with Walter Heller that "an excess profits...
...Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the New Year-by Jewish reckoning the 5,732nd since the creation of the world-and the congregation had been crowding into Manhattan's new Lincoln Square Synagogue since shortly after sunrise. Now Rabbi Steven Riskin and the cantor huddled together. "Tekiah," intoned the rabbi softly, using the Hebrew command for a long blast on the shofar. The cantor tensed his cheeks and raised the ram's horn to sound the melancholy note, the first of a hundred blasts that began the High Holy Days...
...converted red barn, becomes a synagogue. There, at 7 in the evening, they gather: the girls in white dresses, the boys in white trousers and skullcaps. Two silver menorahs burn brightly on a velvet-covered table. A blue "eternal light" flickers above the wooden cabinet containing the Torah. The cantor, a bearded young man, sings the prayers, and the congregation responds in Hebrew. At the end, the worshipers link arms around one another's waists and sway in unison as they sing. Then, in an ecstatic rush, it is over. They break ranks, kiss warmly, wish one another...
...Shutta (pronounced Shuh-tay) gives her all as the old firecracker who makes Broadway Baby an incendiary number. "I'm the only woman in the cast who remembers Ziegfeld," she says. "In 1925 I was in the Follies as the comedienne." Her song: I'm in Love with Eddie Cantor. When her two sons were attending school at Horace Mann in The Bronx...