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Died. Countess Marguerite Cassini, 79, mother of Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and New York Society Columnist Igor ("Chol-ly Knickerbocker") Cassini, a spirited Russian matriarch who was the belle of Washington during the McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt Administrations, when her father was Czarist Ambassador to the U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York...
...strong case could be made for the idea that Goldberg's entire life has been spent in following the path that has taken him to the big desk in the Department of Labor. His father, Joseph Goldberg, fled czarist Russia in the 1880s and wound up in Chicago, where he acquired a horse and wagon, hauled produce to downtown restaurants, and by 1892 had saved enough money to bring his wife and daughter to the U.S. Arthur was the family's seventh and last child...
...with slit noses and lashed backs who had escaped from convict prisons and lived by robbery and murder. Siberia was synonymous with space, silence, emptiness and snowbound darkness for 20 hours of every winter's day. The grim land was said to unhinge men's minds: bored Czarist officers in isolated forts broke the monotony by playing Russian roulette. Settlers in the barren north fell victim to "arctic hysteria...
...complete concert with none of these organizations is Israel's Ben-Gurion. Bred in Czarist Poland, Ben-Gurion cannot understand how any Jew can possibly be happy or productive living outside Israel. Thus believing that a true Zionist must necessarily commit himself to settling in Israel, Ben-Gurion has branded U.S. Zionists as hypocrites, and has fenced for years on the issue with Zionist President Goldmann. Speaking to the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last December, Ben-Gurion threw fresh fuel on the controversy by interjecting a Talmudic passage: "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered...
...read a statement from ex-Chrysler Executive William C. Newberg, who was fired last summer after only 64 days in office as president because of his personal financial interest in Chrysler suppliers. "It is my conviction," said Newberg, "that we cannot ever again have a strong Chrysler under the czarist rule of Mr. Colbert." Under Colbert, said Newberg, Chrysler's share of the U.S. market had dropped from 21.5% in 1949 to 12.5% in 1959; in the past three years, the company lost $7,000,000 on sales of nearly $8 billion, lost another $20 million in the first...