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...turning point came when calls went out for blood to increase the supplies in the clinic's blood bank. The Germans volunteered with the rest. Since then, collective members have invited Germans into their homes, take them along to domino contests and movie nights in Tel Aviv. Fortnight ago, Israelis watched curiously as one of the Germans sobbed during memorial services for the Jewish victims of Crystal Night.* The murderous evening of raids in November 1938 that marked the start of Hitler's campaign to annihilate Germany's Jews...
Manhattan's elegant, four-story town house at i Sutton Place, overlooking the East River, now belongs to the man who lives next door in Nos. 3 and 5. The buyer of the ivy-covered pied-a-terre, sold at auction fortnight ago for a stupendous $436,000: Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 55, president of Steuben Glass, who purchased the property "as a long-term investment." It should prove a good one. In 1943 the Georgian brick residence, built in 1925 for Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, sold for just...
...Then. This year Fortie is at peak form-even if his team is not. Against George Washington, he picked up 272 yds. rushing; Brigham Young lost. 13-12. Against Arizona, he ran and passed for 343 yds., and B.Y.U. lost that one too, 27-21. But fortnight ago, when cellar-dwelling Brigham Young took on league-leading New Mexico, Fortie got some unexpected help from the usually leaky B.Y.U. defense. He scored one touch down, passed for two more, and outgained the entire New Mexico team 232 yds. to 107 yds. in an upset 27-0 victory...
...dutiful cheers from the faithful, but the London Daily Express' Colin Lawson, filing from Havana, reported that "Fidel Castro has taken his biggest knock in popularity since he came down from the hills four years ago." So had his Russian pals. When Lawson first arrived in Cuba a fortnight earlier, newspaper headlines shouted CUBA is NOT ALONE, and front pages were full of photographs of Russian troops on the march. When Khrushchev backed down, the pictures disappeared. "Discreetly, but nevertheless with emphasis." reported Lawson, "many Cubans now show their feelings about Khrushchev. One or two badge-carrying members would...
...Baptist Ralph Elliott, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the church's faith in "the entire Bible as the authoritative, authentic, infallible Word of God" and urged seminaries to stamp out "theological views which would undermine such faith in the historical accuracy and doctrinal integrity of the Bible." A fortnight ago, carrying out that mandate, the trustees of Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary "reluctantly and regretfully" fired Ralph Elliott from his professorship there...