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...flight attendants and supervisors. But two months ago, a Pan Am security official, noticing that the airline's computer system had kicked out the name B. Cohen on a Miami-to-London flight as an unidentified employee, launched an investigation. On Dec. 23, the free ride ended for Cohn-Cohen when Dade County police arrested him in a Miami Pan Am office...
...Cohn was charged with one count of grand theft, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. "He infiltrated Pan Am," explained Detective William Sayers. "He made a good impression. He knew the language of the profession. He served meals and drinks and fluffed pillows." Despite an obvious aptitude for the job, one Pan Am spokesman was unimpressed. Said he: "I don't think we will have any plans to hire...
...reaching a ruling, the rent board closely followed Examiner Robert A. Levite's recommendation to replace the existing increase with a new amount. Board member Alfred Cohn said last night that historically the five- member body "has taken out the capital improvement from previous years and supplanted it with a capital improvement recently done...
...plot is equally enigmatic. When the ark is beached on a tropical island, Cohn and Buz encounter other creatures: a gorilla, eight baboons and eight chimps! which are quickly given such names as Esau and Saul of Tarsus. On every day save the Sabbath, Cohn lectures the apes on the obligations of freedom, the American Constitution, the Big Bang, the nature of evil and other elevated subjects. On Passover he conducts a Seder for the sapient monkeys, except for the intractable gorilla, who will attend only to the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...
Somewhere in this jungle fantasy is no doubt concealed an allegory of the Jews' well-known didacticism and their penchant for social justice. More obscure is the significance of Cohn's coupling with Mary Madelyn (the chimp pronunciation of Mary Magdalene), the island's unique female, a chimp who quotes from Romeo and Juliet with a lisp ("What wov can do, that dares wov attempt"). The fact that only Cohn and Mary Madelyn have sex, producing a baby, causes the beasts to go amuck. In a lunatic re-enactment of both Abraham's intended sacrifice...