Word: emanuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anne Bancroft. Anglicizing their names, Anthony Benedetto became Tony Bennett and Giovanni de Simone became Johnny Desmond. Among Jews, Izzy Itskowitz probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...
...soon as the nation's second and third domestic airlines-American and Eastern-declared their agreement to merge, opposition revved up on all sides last week. Other airlines, fearing sharper competition, protested. Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver said the merger plan has "the most serious of monopolistic implications"; Representative Emanuel Celler said he would investigate. Mike Quill's Transport Workers Union worried about layoffs among the 9,000 American maintenance men that it represents, threatened to strike after Feb. 1 unless the two lines pledged that there would be no job cuts. Bobby Kennedy was yet to be heard...
...Kennedy's defense. Said Dr. E. S. James of Dallas, editor of the Baptist Standard: "I have every confidence in his sincerity, but I am annoyed with the Catholic hierarchy for the pressure it has exerted on him on behalf of federal aid to parochial education." Dr. Emanuel Carlson, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, suggested that America displayed a "persecution complex" on the subject of parochial schools...
...Orthodox Jew," explains Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, 51, president of Beth Din, "a Get is a must. You can never tell when you're going to fall in love with an Orthodox Jew, and when that happens a civil divorce is not enough. You must also have a religious divorce." Rabbis can grant divorces, but this has led to abuses-for example, Gittin from improperly ordained rabbis turned out to be invalid...
...Congress in recess, the partisan snipers still plinked away. As the Republicans' leading sharpshooter, New York's Congressman William Miller, retreated to Florida to meditate the wisdom of surrendering either his chairmanship of the G.O.P. National Committee or his House seat, his fellow New Yorker, Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, helpfully counseled him to hang onto the latter. After the recent "Rocky-mandered" reapportionment of New York's congressional districts, gibed Celler, a Republican could not be unseated in Miller's district "by St. Gabriel himself." Responded Miller: ''I hope-for once in Celler...