Word: levi
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...DIED. Levi Jitzhak Grunwald, 86, the Tzehlemer Rebbe, leader of a minor sect of Hasidim in Brooklyn, who touched the lives of all observant American Jews by requiring enforcement of the most rigorous standards for the preparation of kosher food; in New York City. Born in what is now the Soviet Ukraine, Grunwald was grand rabbi of Tzehlem, a town in northern Austria, when in 1938 he led his congregation to the U.S. to escape Nazi persecution; later he aided the postwar resettlement of many Hasidic Jews, whose men wear broad-brimmed black hats, grow their sideburns into long curls...
Exiled from Rome in 1935 by Mussolini's Fascists, Carlo Levi, poet, painter, doctor and political dissident, was sent to a mountain village in Lucania in southern Italy. The book he wrote about this experience, Christ Stopped at Eboli, has become a small modern classic. If the film, which has been carved out of a much longer mini-series originally made for Italian television, does not have quite the stature of the book, it is nonetheless sober, virtuous and quietly absorbing...
Levinger was the founder of Qiryat Arba. Shortly after the 1967 war, he led a group of his followers, posing as Swiss tourists, to Hebron, where they squatted in the Park Hotel until the Labor government of Premier Levi Eshkol gave them permission to settle in a nearby military encampment. Once their presence was established, the squatters pushed for permanent quarters. In due course, Qiryat Arba, a fortress-like project of high-rise apartments, shops, synagogues and schools, was built by the government at a cost of $50 million...
...companies that have paid to sell their products through the Moscow Olympics include Coca-Cola, Levi Strauss, Wrigley, Burger King, McDonald's and Gillette. Most have now tentatively abandoned sales plans. Levi Strauss, which gave the U.S. Olympic Committee $275,000 and planned to supply $2.5 million worth of athletes' uniforms free, is redesigning a planned $8 million Olympic TV advertising campaign...
...some firms, though, the Olympic boycott may mean more than just a temporary setback and the ruination of an expected sales bonanza. Levi Strauss's negotiations to build a blue-jean plant in the Soviet Union could be damaged by the boycott. Coca-Cola saw the Olympics as its first major penetration of the Soviet market, which Pepsi-Cola so far has cornered. The company had already sent Moscow large supplies of the concentrated Coke syrup. But last week Chairman J. Paul Austin told his old friend and fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter that the company would abide...