Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, in the year commemorating the arrival of the first group of Jewish families in America 300 years ago,* the Beth Sholom Congregation in Philadelphia announced that U.S. Judaism was hoping to close the gap. It had commissioned Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a synagogue which would "wed the American spirit to the ancient spirit of Israel." Wright's synagogue began as a gleam in the pastoral eye of Mortimer J. Cohen, rabbi of the Beth Sholom Congregation...
...summer's end, Mr. Hobbs decides that the age gap is too great for him to be a pal to his children or grandchildren, that his ties to them "can only be based on need or respect." He also decides, despite all its mishaps, that the summer was "hard to beat." But readers will find that Mr. Hobbs' Vacation has not even come close this time to beating Father of the Bride...
...slows the recovery program and results in a lower standard of living, making these nations more vulnerable in their fight against Communist propaganda. What makes the situation particularly dangerous is the impending drop of nearly three and a half billion dollars in aid. In order to keep the dollar gap closed, foreign countries will be forced to increase their restrictions even further. If it were not for the U. S. tariff barriers, Europeans could make up their dollar deficit by selling goods on the American market...
Closing the Gap. In the TV show, Jarrin' Jack can never quite reconcile himself to the fact that Junior is not a muscular fresh-air fiend like himself, but a studious type who collects tropical fish. Junior is convincingly played by Gil Stratton Jr., burr head, droop jaw, horn rims and all. What particularly jars Jack is the knowledge that the son of his meek, pint-sized office bookkeeper is a strapping answer to a football coach's prayer. Yet in program four, after Pop has the bookkeeper's boy underfoot for a weekend, he finds that...
Scripter Howard, who says he never had a more difficult program to write, is trying to ease up on its heavy-handed humor: "The villain in this show is not Daddy and it's not Junior-it's the great wide gap between them. To show that, I had to do the show in sharp black & white." Now I can begin closing the gap...