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...veil dropped just below her chin as a compromise with the Moslem custom she had always known, crouched silently for 30 hours on a Jerusalem street corner, spellbound by the goings-on in her new homeland. To make the newcomers feel at home, villagers at two new settlements, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, performed Kurdish and Arab dances instead of the Jewish ones...
Eliot lagged behind the Winthrop boat by over a length most of the way. Halfway through the mile course; the Elephants pushed the stroke to a sprint, and were still gaining on the Puritans at the finish line...
...Rough" is the term usually applied to productions like Pl Eta's "A Doctor in Spite of Himself." Rough, because what starts out to be Mollere ends up as a cross between Olsen and Johnson and Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a blatantly amateurish production, whose cast decided about halfway through the first act that it would be more fun to ham Mollere than to perform...
...cockpit, Major Charles E. Crecelius, 30, the plane commander, ran crisply through his in-flight checklist and settled into the routine of a 17-hour combat training mission. He and his 16-man crew had been briefed to fly a series of dogleg courses around the U.S. Halfway through the mission, they would simulate a bombing run on Oklahoma City. Four F-51 fighters of the Oklahoma Air National Guard would try to intercept them over the target, make a series of camera gunnery passes at the huge, ten-engined bomber...
...when he began what he calls a "Jewish ecumenical movement," Dr. Kaplan found Jewish congregations in the U.S. split into three major groups: the Orthodox, which demands strict observance of scriptural laws; the Reform, which emphasizes broad ethical concepts at the expense of dogma, and the Conservative, a halfway house between the other two. Although he himself became associated with the Conservatives, Dr. Kaplan has tried to weld the three groups together on a broad basis of "peoplehood" rather than theological doctrine. "It does not matter," he says, "whether the community is Orthodox, Conservative or Reform, whether its idea...