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...Brooklyn student reported that someone had tried to sell her the answers to some exams. Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold's investigators soon discovered that "thousands" of hot answer keys were being marketed by student peddlers. Detectives eventually traced the purloined papers to Brooklyn's Solomon Schechter High School, where the seals on answers stored in the principal's office were found to have been tampered with. The D.A.'s office said that the heist had been committed by two college boys and two Solomon Schechter seniors who, said school officials, were among "the brightest students...
...others. But the youths, as it turned out, had pulled off the caper by themselves. They had jimmied the principal's desk, stolen the key to the strongbox, and photostated the answer sheets. The copies were then sold at prices as high as $50 apiece. The two Solomon Schechter seniors were expelled from school; otherwise, all four got away from the great exam robbery scot free...
...were dictated for the most part between the time the first volume appeared and Khrushchev's death in 1971, will be called Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Excerpts from it will appear in TIME before its publication in June by Little, Brown & Co. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schechter, our Moscow bureau chief from 1968 to 1970, wrote the book's introduction. "The tapes," Schechter says, "are a unique contribution to our political and historical legacy. They contain not only an insight into Khrushchev's mind and the minds of the men around him but also...
However, Martin Schechter as Mr. Maraczek, the shop owner, is probably too consistently good-natured to be taken for the crusty tyrant he's supposed to be. And as Steven Kodaly, the closest thing the show has to a villian, Charles Seymour, waxed mustache not-withstanding, is a bit too charming to be properly villanous. Paul D. Seltzer, as a campy maitre'd, contributes one of the production's highlights in a number called "Romantic Atmosphere" and George Birnbaum runs a close second with "Perspective," his Thorton-Wilderesque observation on the place of man in the universe. As the delivery...
Like Philip Schechter, Martin Siegel has a jaundiced view of Reform Judaism. He, too, is 37: the two men, in fact, were classmates at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. There the resemblance ends. Schechter's anger is a howl from the pulpit: Siegel's is a whine from the swimming pool...