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Died. Yehuda Leib Levin, 77, chief rabbi of Moscow's Central Synagogue since 1957 and unofficial spokesman for 3,000,000 Soviet Jews; of pneumonia; in Moscow. The white-bearded patriarch admitted that Jews in the Soviet Union suffer from the restrictions of "an atheistic culture." Like many religious leaders in Communist countries, however, he found it necessary to conciliate the regime. He took an anti-Zionist line and observed, accurately enough, during a U.S. visit in 1968: "There have been no pogroms...
...Gurion's pace has hardly slowed. Visiting him last week in his trim green bungalow in the Negev, TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin found him hard at work on memoirs that will complement his history. Ben-Gurion is writing mainly for the youth of Israel. "I want to tell them what has been done so far, what was good and what was not so good, so that they should know how to continue Jewish history...
...Gurion does not believe that peace will result from superpower maneuvers or from any effort by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, whom he does not trust. Rather, he told Levin, it will emerge because of the new generation in Egypt. "There are many Egyptian youths who have finished university. There are some among them who care for their people. There will be peace because they understand what Nasser understood in the last year of his life-that the main problem of Egypt is not how to destroy Israel but how to improve the condition of its own peasants...
...other men listed by the Justice as possible candidates are: Marvin Bernstein, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; Wilbur Cohen, former Secretary of HEW; Joseph Kauffman, former dean of students at Brandeis; Leo Levin, vice-president of the University of Pennsylvania; and Herman Stein, provost of Western Reserve College...
Died. Philip J. Levin, 62, multimillionaire real estate developer and president of the Madison Square Garden Corp.: of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The balding wheeler-dealer amassed much of his fortune of more than $100 million by building scores of shopping centers from Maine to Miami. He also became MGM's largest single stockholder, and in 1966 and 1967 staged unsuccessful proxy fights against the management. Levin then sold his MGM stock and bought into the conglomerate, Gulf & Western Industries. He headed Madison Square Garden since February...