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Perhaps the best article (this reviewer too has fallen prey to academic equivocation) in the current issue is "South African Jewry in Crisis" by Richard Suzman. Suzman, a junior in Social Relations, is, we are told, a transfer student from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. In an extremely lucid and understated style Suzman describes the plight of South African Jews caught up in the turbulent and often violent politics of that land...
Last week, 100 soldiers armed with machine guns and bazookas suddenly sealed off a block in downtown Algiers. Then, like terriers, special squads went after their prey. He was Omar Harraig, 38, no less a figure than the police commissioner of Algiers...
...loves him, but he thinks only of the little girl. When the young woman finds out who her rival is, she is appalled. Her lover is a sick man, a pilot who crashed in Indo-China and has lived in limbo ever since, his memory gone and his imagination prey to fearful fancies...
...They Can Be Beat." All that success began to prey on them. Last week, the Packers needed a last-ditch, 23-yd. touchdown run by Halfback Tom Moore to beat Baltimore, 17-13. "The games are getting tougher every week," complained Head Coach Vince Lombardi. "The other teams are pointing for us. Every time they tackle us now, it seems like their life depends on it." Above all, the second-place (8 won, 2 lost) Detroit Lions were pointing for the Packers. Last time the two teams met, Green Bay won, 9-7, on a field goal with 33 seconds...
Small businessmen have more to fear from speculators who prey on them when they are desperate for capital. Says Petersen: "There are always some people who say 'Look, I'll put up $100,000 or so. You take 49% of the action and everything will be fine.' " The young small businessman is torn between his need for more money and loyalty to original investors; often he takes the cash and loses control...