Word: rabby
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest advocate," a grateful Richard Nixon told Rabbi Baruch Korff, 60, last spring, and the tribute stands unchallenged. For the past year the beleaguered President has been extravagantly extolled and defended by Korff, sprightly founder and head of the National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency, Inc. Last week Nixon found time to meet with Korff in San Clemente, Calif., where he accepted a token of the rabbi's devotion: a copy of a hagiographic paperback called The Personal Nixon: Staying on the Summit, which Korff s organization is rushing into the bookstores...
Later in the week, Nixon addressed by phone some 2,500 diehard supporters who were attending a rally in Washington, B.C., that Korff had organized. Said the President: "Rabbi Korff s eloquence, his intelligence, his dedication, have been a great source of strength to me and all of us in these difficult times." In reply, Korff told the President: "We love you dearly." He brushed away a tear as he hung up the receiver...
...people, all outlandish, pop from the author's head fully jig-sawed. There is old Geraty, a buffalo-like giant addicted to Japanese horseradish, who once ran a Chinese pornographic movie parlor. There is the former Baron Kikuchi, a Japanese who converted to Judaism and became a rabbi. Quin appears as a shadowy cuckold who ran a circus in Shanghai at the war's outset and orchestrated the murder of its entire company during a performance. Maeve Quin, his glad-glanded wife, is an aerialist who made her final somersault into the lights with no hands to catch...
...Stendahl Committee's proposal recommended that the present position of Preacher to the University be replaced by three co-equal preachers. The committee report suggested that these three preachers be: a Roman Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and a Protestant minister...
...school, 100 yds. away, and were inside before the guards realized that they were there. Waving guns and hand grenades, the Palestinians jolted the sleeping students awake with kicks on the feet. "Lakum, lakum [Get up, get up]!" they yelled. Fifteen students, a few teachers and the rabbi realized what was happening and leaped out windows of the three-story building; some of them landed painfully on the gravel 20 ft. below. "I figured first it was a kid playing