Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never-Miss. In the Senate, whose members must risk the winds of public opinion only once every six years, sentiment is more favorable to the tax bill. Last week three Senators of markedly different persuasions-Democrat Robert Kennedy and Republicans Jacob Javits of New York and John Williams of Delaware-spoke in favor of a tax increase, coupled with judicious spending cuts. Mills could not care less. Under the Constitution, it is the House of Representatives that is empowered to originate revenue measures, and it is from the House that Mills derives his considerable influence...
...Harvard students arrested yesterday were Jacob S. Egan '68; Lewis S. W. Crampton, a third-year graduate student; Jesse Kornbluth '68, whose anthology of articles from underground newspapers is scheduled to be published by Viking Press later this year; his brother, Richard S. Kornbluth '69; and Stephen D. Lerner '68, former executive editor of the CRIMSON...
Orthodox rabbis in the U.S. claim that their synagogues are beginning to attract thousands of Jews who had previously been indifferent to the faith- especially young, middle-class couples. An example is Los Angeles' Beth Jacob temple: 44% of the congregation is made up of young professional persons under 38 years of age. More and more Jewish parents are sending their children to Orthodox day schools-which in the U.S. have expanded from 49 elementary and high schools in 1945 to 339 today...
...Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and now the co-chairmanship of the Conference of Concerned Democrats. He is considered a prime candidate, according to national columnist James Weschler of the New York Post, for a seat in Congress or the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Jacob K. Javits...
...Hadassah Medical Center in West Jerusalem. The Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem were scheduled with little change in the traditions established while the town was under Arab rule. As many as 40,000 Jewish pilgrims a day travel to Hebron to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), which for 700 years has been an Arab mosque. Jewish tourists literally swarm over the Golan Heights every weekend. On 9,211-ft. Mount Hermon, in what used to be Syria, a group of enterprising kibbutzniks plans to open a ski resort that might just be called the Shalom Slalom...