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DIED. Simcha Ehrlich, 67, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, an uncharismatic but influential politician and a moderate voice in Menachem Begin's ruling coalition; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. A Polish-born optician who was elected to the Knesset in 1969, he became chairman of the Liberal Party and, in 1977, Begin's Finance Minister, since the Liberals were the second largest element in the victorious Likud bloc. Ehrlich took the credit, then the blame, for the government's "economic revolution," which led to Israel's chronic triple-digit inflation. He resigned the finance portfolio...
...wants to buy glasses on a Sunday?" Billie P. Montgomery, an optician at Optique, said...
...35th for a place in Vagankovo Cemetery . . . 16th at the optician's . . . 110th for an abortion (not pregnant now, but ready when my time comes...
...something. Otherwise I can't read." The girl turned to me, the next customer in line. But the old man would not leave. He just stood there holding his glasses. "What am I going to do? I can't possibly afford new glasses and all those visits to the optician...How am I ever going to read?" he asked plaintively. The waiting customers looked away, embarrassed by this pathetic outburst...
...applauded his opponent's best shots; if he thought an adversary had got a bad linesman's call, he would chivalrously knock his next return into the net. He smiled his toothy grin when his rivals snarled or cursed. But last week Manuel Orantes, 26, an optician's son from Barcelona, took the center court at Forest Hills in the U.S. Open tournament and beat the stuffing out of Jimmy Connors, 23, who has a lot of stuffing and some of the best shots in all tennis. Orantes dinked, he dunked and he tossed top-spin lobs...