Word: rab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missing from the House last week were two familiar figures, both former Foreign Secretaries. Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, 62, holder of six Cabinet posts in Tory governments and rejected aspirant for the prime ministership when Harold Macmillan resigned, announced that he was leaving his front-bench seat to accept a life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet...
...congregation generally finds Wine's godless, empirical approach inspiring. Says Attorney Merrill Miller: "He has made religion the most meaningful experience for me in terms of ethical and moral decisions." Other rab bis in Detroit, however, think that Wine is an immature sensationalist, and the schedule of his weekly sermons has been struck from the local Jewish News. Pittsburgh's Rabbi Solomon Freehof, one of Reform Judaism's leading theologians, suggests that Wine ought to drop all pretenses entirely and call his Birmingham Temple the "rationalist association of Detroit." "When he uses the title rabbi...
...chiefly responsible for the Conservatives' return to power in 1951, and thereafter, will no longer roam the corridors of power. Shadow Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, 64, who twice lost out for the premiership (in 1957 and 1963), and has groomed such potential Prime Ministers as Maudling, Heath and Macleod, was relieved of his job as deputy Prime Minister and the party's most dynamic idea man. Butler's demise seemed inevitable after a pre-election newspaper interview in which Sir Alec's old rival had sardonically hinted at a Tory defeat...
...sooner had the Minister of Science done his bit to embarrass the Tories than Foreign Secretary Rab Butler had a go at it. Campaigning in Manchester, Home had said that the U.S. and Britain had ready a treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons that "could be produced at a moment's notice" for Russia's signature. Whereupon Butler declared airily in an interview that "we've had a chat about it with the Americans," but that there is no such treaty, adding, "After all, I would know. I'm the Foreign Secretary...
...religiously that one rival innkeeper calls it "a synagogue with bedrooms." Besides separate kitchens and dining rooms for meat and dairy dishes, there is a purifying bath, or mikveh, in which men immerse themselves before holidays and Sabbaths, and women after menstruation and childbirth. A staff rab bi conducts services at the hotel's own synagogue three times a day, and the chief work of hairdressers at the Debo rah's beauty salon is setting the wigs of Orthodox women who usually crop their hair and keep it covered after they marry, as a sign of modesty...