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Also on Monday, a program of contemporary songs at BU. Guest artist Margarita Scack, soprano, sings works of Stelarc, Beurle, Copelent and Cage. Jacob Sleeper Hall, 871 Comm Ave. The recital begins at 8 p.m. For information, call...
...grimy, torn portrait of an aged, slightly paunchy George Washington that for years had been hanging around New Bedford, Mass. The local Boys Club, which owned it, lent it in the 1950s to the town's First National Bank, which put it in storage. That deeply upset Jacob Rubin, 82, a Russian-born furniture maker, who was worried that the painting was "going to wrack and ruin." On behalf of the Boys Club-of which he is a director and benefactor-Rubin tried to sell the portrait. He got no takers-even after he lowered his price...
...which makes little difference to Jacob Rubin. Says he: "I was offended that no one-not even American-born citizens-wanted to buy the painting." George Washington, he feels, deserves better than a dark, deserted storage vault-no matter who painted his likeness...
...made a covenant with the Jews of Medina 1,355 years ago. Some religious Jews even saw the Sadat-Begin meeting foreshadowed in the Torah text for the Sabbath (Vayishlach) to be read at prayer services this Saturday morning. It was a passage from Genesis describing the reconciliation of Jacob and his brother Esau, who fathered the Edomites, said to be forebears of today's Arabs. A key passage from the reading: "Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold Esau came ... and Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed...
...legislation also had its share of defenders. Said New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "This bill represents the very least we can do for those workers who cannot protect themselves and their families from the erosion in their living standards caused by inflation." It is probably premature to say for sure whether organized labor's victory on minimum wage presages a resurgence of union influence in Congress. But one thing is certain. The increasingly powerful business lobby is not likely to let itself be so obviously outmaneuvered in any future congressional confrontation...