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Married. Dr. Hans Albert Einstein, 55, son of Physicist Albert Einstein, professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California; and Elizabeth Roboz, 56, research biochemist at Stanford University Medical School; he for the second time, she for the first; in Berkeley, Calif...
Work on Tish 'ah Be'ab. Abe brought his own kosher food to school every day and ate it in the student lounge, where he also said his midday prayers in a corner, surrounded by chattering fellow students. Hospital duty during the 24-hour fast without food and water at Tish 'ah Be'ab (commemorating the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.) Dr. Twerski describes as "murder,'' and the last six years have left him hollow-eyed and slightly sallow. But he is eagerly looking forward to the next stage: a year...
...dollars worth of frozen eggs from the nation's commercial egg-freezing plants as an indirect aid to prop up falling egg prices. The new egg-buying program is on top of $16 million Benson has spent since last October buying dried eggs, mostly for the Government-aided school-lunch program...
Simone was more pious than her mother when she entered parochial school; she received Holy Communion three times a week and tried to practice self-mortification by scrubbing herself raw with pumice. But the day came when her longtime father-confessor charged her with arrogance and disobedience. Simone got flaming mad: "His priest's robe was only a disguise; it covered an old busybody who fed on gossip. With burning face I left the confessional, determined never to set foot in it again...
Author Miller has written his jungle book in the form of a long memoir from Duke to the psychiatrist assigned to his case at an upstate reform school. The parallel to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is ironic, and too close to be anything but intentional. Miller's gift for mimicking the speech of a bitter, neurotic boy is as true as Salinger's. But Holden Caulfield had a caustically individual twist to his mind, and it was on an exploration of this mind that Salinger concentrated. Miller's book is focused...