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Leading the secularist opposition was the United Workers Party (Israel's second largest) which insists on complete separation of church and state. The United Workers last week charged the government with "a design to force religion on the soldiers" by closing army kitchens on Yom Kippur, providing only bread and jam to "thousands of soldiers who did not want to fast." Other secularists demanded a government investigation of an army commander who (they said) had marched 600 soldiers to a synagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Stamp of Judaism | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...course into sections of comparable ability. Many students might start right off the bat with English Ab. Harried section men would find themselves successfully teaching a whole class, not part of one. And a lot of Freshmen would learn a great deal more from the College's largest course, now far too clumsy to dodder past anything but its required fundamentals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shuffle the Sections | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

...sang 4,000 Tories last week as they gathered for the 69th annual conference of the British Conservative Party in Llandudno (pronounced: hlandidno), Wales. It was the largest Conservative conference ever held, and the first which opened with a religious service. An elderly delegate said: "We do well to thank God, and to pray for His help in the future." It was the first time since the Tories' great defeat in 1945 that the gloom which encircled them showed signs of lifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Light of Llandudno | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

They got them on the fifth day, when the silent bats finally spoke. Boston hit three home runs, to the alarm of Clevelanders in the largest crowd (86,288) to watch a baseball game anywhere, any time. Boston batters, who at one stretch had gone 23 consecutive innings without scoring a run, got six in the seventh inning. They won the game, 11-5. Head down, Bob Feller walked to the showers, the first Cleveland pitcher to be shelled from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pitching Pays | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Police officials from the U.S., Canada, and South America are expected to attend the conference of the international Association of Chiefs of Police meeting. The conference is the largest of its kind in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Will Hear Address by Med School Professor | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

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