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...whom take Texas-size pride in being civic leaders and Dallas boosters. On Friday the temple was dedicated to the congregation itself, on Saturday to Judaism as a whole, on Sunday to the entire city of Dallas. "That's how their thinking goes," explained Emanuel's Rabbi Levi Olan. "They think of themselves as a natural part of the larger community...
...Jacov Levi, United Nations correspondent since 1953 for Yugoslavia's official Communist paper Borba. Levi, 35, quit the party and his job in Manhattan, explained that Tito's defense of Russian intervention in Hungary and the arrest of former Yugoslav Vice President Milovan Djilas (TIME, Dec. 3) had convinced him that "the promised liberation and democratization in my country have reached a dead-end street." Levi, the only Red correspondent accredited to U.N. forces in Korea in 1951, asked asylum...
...Died. Levi Hollingsworth Wood, 82, slim, bushy-browed Manhattan lawyer and Quaker humanitarian, a founder (1910) and president (1915-41) of the National Urban League (membership: 50,000), which supports Negro rights in housing and employment, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Friends Service Committee; in Mount Kisco...
...Insult. A battery of Italy's leading intellectuals, among them Authors Carlo (Christ Stopped at Eboli) Levi, Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia, Ignazio (Fontamara) Silone, declared openly for Dolci. "The world of culture is on Danilo's side," said Silone. But the world of authority was not: the public prosecutor demanded eight months' imprisonment for Danilo Dolci...
...four chalices which will be used in the service are kept in Fogg Museum. Records there indicate that the Corporation voted on November 20, 1814, "that the President (John Thornton Kirkland), Dr. Lathrop (John Lathrop, Secretary to the Board of Overseers), and Professor Hedge (Levi Hedge, College Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, and Alfred Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity) be authorized to procure a service of plate suitable for the Communion at the expense of the Corporation." New silver plate and glass cups were recently purchased for use in addition to the historic vessels...