Word: centra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scrambled Yegg. In El Centra, Calif., Willis Mallory, asked why he broke into a house, heated up a can of spaghetti and melted crayons in it, replied: "It all seems like a dream...
...Centra'l High, Memphis Texas
...centra! front, armored columns from three U.S. divisions thrust north in the largest armored raid in many months. The raid was christened "Operation Cleaver," but ebullient correspondents were cautioned not to call it an "offensive." Two of the columns got into savage fighting, and one was reported "engaged on all sides" (i.e., surrounded). The Reds, said a U.N. officer, seemed to have antitank guns "in every nook and corner of the valley." The raiders succeeded in wrecking "several" of the enemy's T-34 tanks...
What do modern Jews believe? To answer this question briefly for U.S. Christians and for Jews themselves, Rabb Philip Bernstein, president of the Centra Conference of American Rabbis, wrote an article for LIFE last fall. Now expanded and published in book form, with wood cuts by Quaker Fritz Eichenberg, Wha the Jews Believe (Farrar, Straus & Young; $1.25) is a lucid and readable primer of Judaism from a cheerfully humanistic point of view...