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...year. Last week Floyd D. Hall, president of Eastern Air Lines, asked in a Detroit speech: "Is there no other way to settle our differences than by open conflict that injures those who have little or no involvement in the strike itself?" New York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits has proposed a law under which courts could appoint receivers to operate struck vital facilities...
...everyone was quite as enthusiastic over the plan as Ribicoff was. Senator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) was openly skeptical about its value. Another committee member said that expanded congressional committee staffs could perform the review work just as easily and as objectively as could an independent agency...
...show Bonn that I could govern." At the same time, he enjoyed the life of a country squire. In the more relaxed world of provincial politics, Kiesinger had time for hikes through the Black Forest, for evenings with his family, and for his books (among his favorite authors: Jacob Burckhardt, Alexis de Tocqueville, Maugham, Hemingway...
...setters (Gloria Guinness, Lee Radziwill, Count and Countess Rudolfo Crespi, Mrs. John Barry Ryan III), the intellectuals (Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy, William Buckley), show-biz folk (Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Jerome Robbins), the writers (Edward Albee, Marianne Moore, Norman Mailer) and official Washington (Nicholas Katzenbach, John Sherman Cooper, Jacob Javits...
Rothberg's anti-hero is Jacob Nissim, a veritable Aryan in appearance-blond, crew cut, blue eyes, short straight nose-but in experience perhaps too pat a symbol of Jewish suffering and persecution. A product of the Warsaw ghetto, Nissim escapes at 13 from the cattle car that is taking his family to the gas chambers at Oéwięcim. He learns to kill while traveling with a band of Polish partisans. Eventually, he goes to Israel, where he continues to kill-first the British, then the Arabs. Later, as an assassin for the Shin Beth...