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Most of the North African Jews, who follow the stricter Sephardic tradition, regard the Ashkenazim in France as doctrinally unorthodox and lax in their observance of religious duties. French Jews, in turn, privately dismiss the Sephardim as "backward and bigoted," fear the "superstitions" that the newcomers could impose upon Judaism in France...
...generally lax, easy-grading faculty that has trouble "communicating...
George C. Lodge '50 last night opened what was billed as "a discussion of public morality, not a campaign debate" by implicitly charging Edward J. McCormack, State Attorney-General and Lodge's possible opponent for a U.S. Senate seat, with lax enforcement of anticorruption statutes...
Clearly, a lot of litigation lies ahead. The Common Market members are thin on legal precedent in the antitrust field: France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands have relatively lax national antitrust laws, while Italy and Luxembourg have none at all. This free-and-easy situation results partly from the reality that the economy of Italy, for example, can support only one automaking giant such as Fiat. The Common Market trustbusters are not expected to attack bigness as such. But they are expected to crack down on "abuses" of bigness such as price fixing and market sharing. Officials of VerLoren...
...Britain: Lax. Why should a doctor-as well as six other persons-die of smallpox in the country that for more than 160 years has known the techniques of vaccination devised by Englishman Edward Jenner? The answer is that Britain has let down its legal guard against smallpox. In 1948 the country's compulsory vaccination law, attacked as infringing an Englishman's freedom and as being unnecessary as well, was repealed. But Britain's immunity had depended mainly on the duration of a steamship passage from India (heart of the world's greatest smallpox reservoir...