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...scroll are lengthy statements of halakoth, or religious laws-many of which are found in the Pentateuch, but some new to Biblical scholars. One such regulation, for example, provides for the death penalty for traitors caught spying against the people of Israel. In addition to the annual feast of grains, or Shavuot, the scroll summons the Jewish people to celebrate hitherto unknown feasts of wine and oil following the grape and olive harvests. There are also many sentences insisting upon the need for ritual purity...
According to FCC calculations, the company was enjoying more than an 8.5% return on investment, too rich a feast for a public utility. A more reasonable income, said the commission, would be 7% to 7.5%. To A.T. & T.'s insistence that 8% was needed, the FCC replied: "We note from the record that no regulatory agency has ever, in a formal proceeding, approved a rate of return at or even approximating this level for any electric or telephone utility...
...create a demand for more new housing than the nation has built since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. To finance it, S & Ls and mutual banks need more lee-way to attract and invest funds-partly to tap new sources of saving and partly to end the feast-or-farnine swings in mortgage lending. Builders have pressed for years to expand HUD's Federal National Mortgage Association into a central bank trading in conventional as well as FHA and VA mortgages, to which it is now confined. Bankers oppose any larger role for Fannie Mae, charging that...
...Rounds with Cassius. In his new post, Sullivan is required by tradition to deliver the principal sermon at St. Paul's services on six feast days of the church calendar-but in effect he be comes year-round pulpit spokesman for Anglicanism's most famous cathedral. Theologically and politically, Sullivan considers himself a middle-of-the-roader on the plausible ground that "the middle of the road means where the road is." A knowledgeable theologian, he feels that such avant-garde Anglicans as Bishop John A. T. Robinson (Honest to God) have gone too far and too fast...
Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened its doors to the first American festival of Czechoslovak films-a moviegoer's feast of a dozen pictures never before shown in the U.S. Anxious to avoid their past neglect, commercial exhibitors snapped up five of them before the festival opened; more are almost certain to be booked. The distributors are making no mistake. Based on the festival evidence, it is clear that the Czech New Wave may soon reach tidal proportions. Four of the most interesting features...