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Some of the biggest U.S. banks have been cooped up within the confines of New York City, forbidden by state law to set up branches or holding companies to buy banks in the fast-growing suburbs of Westchester and Nassau counties. Efforts of Manhattan bankers to change the law have always been blocked by a coalition of small-town Republicans and solid Democratic opposition in the state legislature. Among the caged banking Goliaths: the Chase Manhattan (assets: $8.5 billion), whose vice chairman is David Rockefeller, brother of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...Jewish dietary law forbids man to eat bees. But the Old Testament demonstrates over and over that eating honey is permissible, and this is surprising because generally the product of any nonkosher animal is forbidden. Why the exception for honey? Traditional halacha explains this on the ground that the honey never enters the system of the bee but merely rests in the nectar sac, where it becomes honey. Science now knows that the bee secretes an enzyme that changes the nectar to honey. In recent Orthodox opinions, an enzyme from a nonkosher animal (such as a bee) is forbidden...
...past in more ways than one. Class-conscious publicans still provide a "saloon" for the gentry and a "public" bar for the lower classes, where a pint is a penny cheaper. Dog-eared signs command: "No Singing," "No Gambling," "No Credit." Listening to phonograph records or sports broadcasts is forbidden. Finally, there is the most exasperating restriction of all-"Time, gentlemen, please," which is the theme song of the most bewildering set of license laws in Christendom...
...Forbidden pilots to fraternize with passengers during flight...
...Forbidden passengers to drink liquor...