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...expression to their tradition. "Hillel for many Jews means a community," says Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, associate director of Hillel. "If a Jew recognizes himself as a Jew this means that he wishes to act as such. For some it means to hear a lecture, for others it means lox and bagels, and for others it means worship...
...weekly trips over the 5,800 miles from New York to Tel Aviv, the passenger lists are 80% Jewish. El Al corners the groups with what it calls a "sales mating call." The rabbinically supervised menu includes gefilte fish and bagels and lox; there are also potato pancakes for Hanukkah and matzo-ball soup for Passover. The airline enjoys a 55.9% load factor, last year made a $200,000 profit; this was not sensational, but it was better than most other state-owned lines, which are losing money...
...could sing the old songs that used to thrill his friends but cannot be parodied on records because they are not in the public domain -big brassy Broadway tunes like 76 Sol Cohens and the entire score of South Passaic (Younger Than Springstein, There Is Nothing Like a Lox). Movie tunes too. Moon River becomes "Chopped liver, rolled up in a ball...
...tested at "Suzy," North American's test facility in the Santa Susana Mountains northwest of Los Angeles, it is trucked to Leuhman Ridge in the Mojave Desert. There, the test stand towers 275 ft. above the rocky ground. Tucked in its steel skeleton are tanks for lox (liquid oxygen) and kerosene, while stairs, cables, and many-colored pipes thread their way among the girders. The F-1 looks small in this immense structure, but it does not act small. After a careful countdown, a brilliant spout of flame bursts from its throat, and a sound beyond description rolls across...
...fuels are "hypergolic." This fancy word, too newly coined to be included in most dictionaries, means that the two liquids start burning furiously as soon as they come in contact. No igniting system is needed, and this advantage eliminates a missile designer's nightmare. Kerosene and lox, the commonest missile fuels, do not ignite on contact; furthermore, if they do not burn promptly, they form a powerful explosive mixture that can blow a missile to shreds...