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...might damage B & W's ability to do business. If so, said Zipf, "we shall hold you responsible for any such damage." But Zipf did say that the offer needs more study, and United blandly chose to thank him for replying so quickly-indicating that Gray intends to persist...
Today Portugal enjoys official freedom of religion, and the 400 members of Lisbon's openly Jewish community are prominent in business and the professions. In the northern villages, however, cruel memories persist. The priests are nearly as powerful-and many of them as backward and anti-Semitic-as in the Middle Ages. The current priest in Belmonte is a "good man," says a prosperous Marrano housewife, but the previous one "said in church that the Jews should be hanged." The Marranos claim that when they did not attend Mass they were denounced to the secret police as suspected Communists...
...Cambridge, a city where obscenity laws are vague but strong religious and moral feelings persist, there was bound to be a stir over the live, staged nudity. But for those who went as well as those who didn't, the show's nudity and all it provoked was the best thing, if not the only thing, the show had going for it. Unfortunately, Tynan and his company blew the chance to capitalize on the show's greatest asset. They finish the disrobing number three minutes after the curtain rises, lining the cast up in full nudity under cool white lights...
...same time one of the most oppressive countries in Communist Europe. Much to the dismay of Party Boss Erich Honecker, some 200,000 people have applied to live in West Germany. Although many of the applicants have lost their jobs and apartments, tradesmen, workers and professional people still persist in trying...
...week's end tempers were cooling. The union postponed its strike vote, and negotiations were proceeding smoothly. The AFL-CIO was determined to avoid a rerun of the embarrassing one-day walkout of part of its staff in 1970 (the issue then was wages). Yet tensions will persist within the AFL-CIO's walls -perhaps even after a new contract is signed. Complained one union chief: "This just goes to show that employers are the same everywhere...