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Died. Eli M. Black, 53, chairman of United Brands Co., a $2 billion conglomerate; in a 44-story plunge from his office in Manhattan's Pan Am Building. An ordained rabbi before going into business, Black in 1967 acquired John Morrell & Co., an ailing $800 million meat packer, which he merged with United Fruit Co. in 1970. Throughout 1974 a series of crises bled Black's empire: hurricanes wrecked Honduran banana plantations, Central American governments imposed heavy export taxes, and the cost of feeding cattle skyrocketed. Since November, when United Brands reported losing over $40 million...
...York investigation centers around Bernard Bergman, 63, a Hungarian-born Manhattan rabbi (without congregation) who is involved in the operation of a disputed number of nursing homes in the area. A series of recent probes made headlines when Andrew Stein, a state assemblyman whose commission on living costs has been studying the nursing-home industry, charged widespread padding of Medicare and Medicaid bills submitted from a number of homes, including Bergman's. According to New York's secretary of state Mario Cuomo, Bergman's homes not only mistreated their patients but defrauded the state of Medicaid funds...
...Clemente, Nixon last week spent what his still-ardent defender, Rabbi Baruch Korff, termed "a quiet, meditative, prayerful, reflective" 62nd birthday. The rabbi, who spoke to reporters in a thinly veiled effort to help raise money to meet Nixon's continuing legal expenses, said Nixon was pleased by the release of his accusers. "That is very good, to ease the burden of man in time of trouble," Korff quoted Nixon as saying. Korff said that the fund drive he heads has raised $95,000 for Nixon's costs, but it needs another $15,000 to meet...
...Rabbi Samuel M. Silver...
...Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, longtime ecumenical envoy between Jews and Christians, praised some aspects of the guidelines as "constructive," but took grave exception to other parts. Tanenbaum said that "no self-respecting Jew" could live with passages that "imply a religious 'second-class' status" for Judaism. What especially grieved Tanenbaum and other Jewish critics was the guidelines' silence on Jewish historic and spiritual ties to the land of Israel. Any definition of contemporary Judaism that does not consider "the inextricable bonds of God, People, Torah and Promised Land," wrote Tanenbaum, "risks distortion of the essential nature...