Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wouk is sure that the answer to both questions is no. and that the only hope lies in training the best brains among the young in the law. And this to him means Orthodoxy. "If I stand up to be counted in that communion, it is not because I hold it perfect, or because I miss the stresses that have sent many into dissent and assimilation. It is because I sense in my bones that Jewish survival rests with the law . . . The formulas of dissent make a pleasant compromise for people who want an easier life than the law asks...
...most romantic was the Calypso of France, commanded by handsome Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, famed underwater explorer and author of The Silent World. Displayed on her deck were weird bits of equipment: submarine scooters, deep-sea motion-picture-taking devices called "halibuts," and an anti-shark cage. In her hold was a Diving Saucer, a two-man submarine designed to follow the ocean bottom down...
Iron & Haggis. That again enraged British newsmen. But their biggest gripe was that President Eisenhower refused to hold a press conference, although he had done so in West Germany. In rebuttal, Hagerty stubbornly and rightly maintained that Eisenhower was not at the beck and call of the press: "The President of the United States is here as a Chief of State, and he makes his own decisions." (Beyond that, British Prime Ministers never grant on-the-record press conferences...
...Hold at Last. By 1949 Lola was back in Hollywood, still waiting for recognition. She suffered from insomnia, and she was beginning to pick up a reputation as an oddball. "I always liked to do kookie things," she insists, but now, with two unsuccessful marriages and years of unimportant roles behind her, she feels as if she is taking hold. Peter Gunn gave her steady work (though she still lives on vitamin shots and fights insomnia), and the chance to sing gave her a new career. Today, when she walks her dog around her modest Encino home, lonely Lola...
...Many people who are purchasing small imported cars will prefer first-class American transportation to the second-class transportation offered them by small foreign imports." So said Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest R. Breech last week, as Ford became the first of the U.S. Big Three to hold a press showing on closed-circuit television of its new 1960 compact car to newsmen gathered in 21 cities...