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This year the two first days of classes fell on Rosh Hashana. Understandably there have been a number of complaints about such a needless oversight. Radcliffe postponed its Formal Opening ceremonies to miss the Jewish holiday. Next year we hope Harvard displays a similar flexibility...
...Cards looked out to the mound next day, there stood Sandy Koufax, No. 1 in the National League in won-lost record (23-5), strikeouts (284) and practically everything else.* The Dodgers' regular rotation called for Koufax to work the last game, but that fell on Rosh Hashana, and Sandy refuses to pitch on Jewish holidays. Alston also started hulking (6 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) Frank Howard despite the fact that Howard was 0-for-19 in St. Louis this season. So naturally Howard crashed a two-run homer, and Koufax needed only 87 pitches, 66 of them...
There were the ritualistic messages to be sent: one to congratulate several Southern cities for peaceable school integration, one to U.S. Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722. There were bills to be signed: they ranged from the $4 billion foreign aid authorization to a measure providing $150,000 for a Pearl Harbor memorial to the Pacific dead of World War II. There were dozens of visitors, but many of them did not appear on the official appointments list; instead, such cold war planners as State Secretary Dean Rusk, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn Seaborg...
...Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) services were an hour late getting started in Madrid, but nobody seemed to mind. One of the 200 Jews who crowded the third-floor hall off Madrid's Gran Via explained: "We've waited 467 years for this day. A few more minutes won't hurt." At last the congregation, led by younger members bearing the Torah, began the solemn march, chanting the ancient Hebrew prayer: "Praised be the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endureth forever." Then the congregation president lit the "eternal light" (an electric bulb). Occasion: dedication...
Paul Land's 100 fellow passengers. George ("Snuffy") Stirnweiss, longtime speedy New York Yankee second baseman (1943-50) turned businessman, got on at Red Bank, bound for a lunch date in the city. At the Deal station Attorney Leonard Fisch, 50, climbed aboard; it was Rosh Hashana, a Jewish holy day, and Fisch was going into Manhattan to spend it with his father...