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...curious hack pieces for souvenirs...
...schools, and he cannot learn Hebrew or Yiddish in the public schools; they simply are not taught. Since the 1940s, the Hebrew and Yiddish theater has been almost completely closed down. The only Yiddish periodical that is allowed to be published is a monthly journal edited by a party hack. The so-called Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, which Stalin set up as a showplace in Siberia, has only 30,000 Jews in a population of 163,000. The Soviet Jew is also handicapped by a strict quota system in universities and higher training schools. Jews may make up only...
MAINE: The only question here is the margin of victory for Sen. Edmund Muskie. He is opposed, for the sake of form rather than out of hopes for victory, by an old style hack politician named Neil S. Bishop who has run unsuccessfully for a number of state-wide offices since he entered polities in the 1940S. Muskie won with 67 per cent of the vote in 1964 and will have to equal or top this to remain the front runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination...
...Massachusetts' Third District, the peace candidate is Father Robert Drinan. A Jesuit priest and Dean of the Boston College Law School, Father Drinan defeated 72-year-old incumbent Democrat Philip Philbin '18 in the September 15th Democratic primary. Given little chance of defeating Philbin who was labeled a "hack" by the Wall Street Journal, Father Drinan surprised everyone with his decisive victory...
Drivers also complain that the screens cut them off from an important fringe benefit of their jobs: conversation with passengers. Some riders, however, might appreciate the blessed and unusual quiet. Other experiments have had equally spotty success. More than 5,000 New York policemen now hold hack licenses and moonlight as cabbies. In addition, cops drive decoy cabs, and squad cars often follow taxis into high-crime areas. In some cities, a few cabs are equipped with police radios. Despite these measures, the cab crime rate in New York City has continued to soar. As one police official says: "Taxis...