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...Rabbi Kaplan was so miserable with the hidebound orthodoxy of his first congregation (Manhattan's Kehilath Jeshurun) that he asked the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary to recommend him to a life insurance company as salesman. He was persuaded to stick it out. and instead of insurance, he has been selling his own conception of Judaism ever since. It has been a long pull; Mordecai Kaplan was feted by 600 well-wishers last week on his 80th birthday. And his conception of Judaism has grown into a thriving movement: Reconstructionism...
Arriving in West Berlin for a Crusade for Freedom jamboree, able Economist-Diplomat Eleanor Dulles Blondheim, sister of the late Secretary of State and long one of State's top German specialists, got a bear hug that almost fractured her dignity. She was met by a hidebound impersonator enacting the role of the beleaguered city's bear symbol. Widow Dulles disengaged herself from the affectionate embrace, went on to help West Berlin celebrate the tenth anniversary of the city's U.S.-donated Freedom Bell...
...Hidebound. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, after Pedro Serafim, 25, fired two bullets into his head, another two into left lung, hit himself over the head with a hatchet, and began working on his throat with a saw, neighbors rushed him to a hospital where doctors pronounced him in good condition...
...obscure, 30-year-old British army lieutenant stationed at an obscure post in the Sudan. His future seemed bleak, for most people found him untidy in person and conceited in mind. All his actions tended to infuriate, whether he was receiving visitors naked, or praising Communism to hidebound Tories, or sneering at sports to his athletic fellow officers. It was easy to understand why his schoolboy nickname had been "Stinker...
With the chiefs out of the way, he set up more than 4,000 village councils, elected by universal suffrage. This grass-roots democracy was something new to French Africa, and in the hidebound Moslem region of Fouta Djallon even some women got elected. "The election of women, griots and former slaves," declared Touré expansively, "is the mark of a veritable prize of political conscience, a spiritual revolution...