Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice. Meyer Lansky, 70, the reputed financial wizard of the U.S. underworld, had been living quietly in Israel for 26 months on a visitor's visa as a "retired business man," and had applied for Israeli citizenship. Was he entitled to claim automatic citizenship, like every other Jew under the "Law of the Return"? Or should Lansky be excluded under a clause in the law that bars Jews with criminal pasts who would endanger the public welfare? Specifically, should two minor convictions and pending charges of income tax evasion and contempt of court back home be considered a criminal...
...probably lie there for months"). The CBS brass was watching and, in Norman Lear's words, "saw a star." A second episode-in effect a pilot -was concocted, in which Archie and Edith visited Maude on the eve of her daughter's wedding to a Jew: it clinched the deal for a new series...
Yorkin and Lear grew up in such a milieu-poor but not depressing-and both reach back to early days for authentic touches to bring their shows home to viewers. Lear's salesman father, though a second-generation Russian Jew, was almost as much of a source for Archie as Alf Garnett was. He used to call Norman "the laziest white kid I ever saw" and order his wife to "stifle"-both expressions that were to become Archie's. The family shifted restlessly from New Haven, Conn., where Norman was born, to nearby Hartford, then to Boston...
JOSEPH ROMANO, 32, an Arabic-speaking Jew from Libya, was the country's top weight-lifting champion. Recalled an Olympic committee member: "He was so crazy about sports that he lost two jobs because he spent more time training than working." Romano's latest job was as a window decorator. At Munich, muscle damage in one leg had prevented him from lifting the 430 kilograms that he could usually heft without trouble. He was due to return home to his wife and three daughters for an operation after the Games...
Spitz still exhibits some of the same callow flippancy that has long got him into trouble. Asked if he finds any irony in his playing the conquering Jew in Germany, Mark shrugged and said, "Actually, I've always liked this country." Then he added, tapping a lampshade, "Even though this shade is probably made out of one of my aunts." Bad blood welled up last week between Mark and Teammate Steve Genter, before they competed in the 200-meter freestyle. Word got around that Mark, upon hearing that Genter had been hospitalized, had said: "Well, this may sound terrible...