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...gouging" and "unconscionable profiteering" by "guilty corporations." Last week, speaking to the U.A.W.'s Skilled Trades Conference in Chicago, Reuther vowed that in 1958 his U.A.W. would "win the highest economic wage concessions we have ever won . . . We cannot convince General Motors to part with its millions by pious platitudes. We've got to have a wallop." The surest results of Reuther's walloping, if successful: higher cost of living, more inflation...
...title story, Tehilla, is perhaps the one most deeply infused with the Jewish past. On the surface a straightforward account of the saintly life and pious death of a venerable matriarch, it is luminous with ghetto wisdom, Hassidic mysticism and that sense of close kinship with God that has been the buckler of the Jews through the centuries. The Israeli writers are clearly still groping toward a native form of expression, and this book gives an indication of their potential. No other group of writers, except possibly the Anglo-Indians, have so great an opportunity of drawing on the inexhaustible...
...Yale task force of scholars. It follows young Boswell (he had not yet written his Life of Samuel Johnson) through three years (1766-69) while he was trying to find a wife rich enough to make him a wealthy man, beautiful enough to make him a happy man, pious enough to make him a good man. "Bozzy's" solemn efforts to fill this tall order make scandalously funny reading. He was already the father of a bastard son (who died in infancy), and now a second child was on the way as a result of his "licentious passion...
...this election, attending an estimated 295 breakfasts, 1,150 luncheons, and 3,695 dinners, or two and a half dinners a day. At the same time, his Nixon-like campaign oratory has bristled with frequent free-swinging statements, such as his recent attack on Furcolo as the "most pious fraud ever to appear on a platform in Massachusetts...
...Tower of Babel. The scientists were able to calculate that it had been 295 ft. high, or about as high as the Statue of Liberty. The Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon with "spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones" had often been thought a pious tale until archaeologists uncovered the ruins of Sheba in Yemen in 1951, found indication that the kingdom's chief trade route ran through Israel. This threw new light on the Queen's visit: it was probably a high level business conference...