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...before the Supreme Soviet while his startling admission of incompetency was read out: "I ... request to be relieved." There was a reason for Malenkov's whimper: the regime could not afford a bang. To have trumpeted out a brazen declaration of his disloyalty to the creed at this moment might have jarred things too much; but to have left without admitting some error-even if only inefficiency-would have left Georgy Malenkov unreprimanded, in too strong a position. So came his odd confession and the clumsy charade that followed: 1,300 hands raised unquestioningly to accept their premier...
...Jewish Creed. Moses ben-Maimon, often referred to as "the Rambam" (from his title of rabbi plus the initials of his name), was only in his teens when persecution drove his family from their native Spanish city of Cordova to Morocco, and thence to Egypt, where his father died. In old Cairo, young Maimonides became a physician, a profession in which he achieved such great eminence (his works on hygiene, asthma and sex were remarkably ahead of his time) that he eventually became personal doctor to the court of Sultan Saladin. But philosophy was Maimonides' greatest love...
...Supreme Court upheld the right of the trustees of the State University of New York to order fraternities and sororities in 22 of the university's schools to sever connections with their national headquarters, and to eliminate any policy which "bars students on account of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, or similar artificial criteria...
...which he recalled how, as a boy, he would "walk through fields heavy with the smell of summer growth, lie under a tree and dream . . . that any boy, through hard work, honesty and integrity, could aspire to any position in American life and reach any heights regardless of race, creed or color." This appeal had its effect. More effective, perhaps, was the fact that Lodge had angered some powerful G.O.P. county leaders...
...situation has changed since October 24, however. On that night Ribicoff, addressing a group of Italian Americans, declared that this election will show whether "the American dream is still alive--that any boy, regardless of race, creed, or color, has the right to aspire to public office. Where else but in the Democratic Party," he continued, "could you find a boy named Abe Ribicoff becoming a candidate for governor...