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Hakim, born 36 years ago in St. Louis, has spent almost half his life in the joint. In 1951 he, or more precisely. Albert Bradford, was incarcerated in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City to serve three concurrent life sentences for robbery and two charges of rape. He was 16 years...
...University's graduate course in Principles of Marketing. In walked a gray-uniformed functionary who matter-of-factly began punching the tickets of the equally nonchalant students. The scene was purest Marx brothers, and last week it began playing daily on the Long Island Railroad's Port Jefferson line. The classroom is a converted parlor car, and the students are commuters in one of two new programs to let businessmen take courses as they ride to and from New York City...
...Gurion, the founder-father of Israel and its leader for 15 of the 23 years that it has existed, is not only his country's George Washington but its Thomas Jefferson as well. This week a U.S. edition of his 862-page Israel-a Personal History will be published. Already a bestseller in Israel, the book recalls how in 1948, with the country breeching into bloody birth, Ben-Gurion personally wrote its Declaration of Independence. A committee was assigned the task; and Ben-Gurion reminded it that the U.S. Declaration of Independence made no mention of territorial boundaries. When...
...With the ostentatious Kennedy memorial in Washington [Sept. 20] blighting the hallowed Lincoln and Jefferson monuments, let's call a halt to this pharaoh-like trend. With L.B.J.'s marble spread in Texas, and that 1,500-ft. spire Nixon is probably planning for San Clemente, this self-memorialization indulgence is an ominous one. In our democracy, historic perspective delegates memorialization to posterity, not to the whims and vanities of self-aggrandizement...
...York's Metropolitan Museum of Art unblinkingly accepted a large card collection donated by Jefferson Burdick, a Syracuse ad salesman. The Burdick collection includes cards on everything from battleships to movie stars and is shown by appointment only. Says Roberta Wong, a librarian at the Met: "Each period has its representative minor art. Why shouldn't we have bubble-gum cards...