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Henny Youngman had plenty of quips in his quiver for a bar mitzvah in Atlantic City, especially since the coming-of-age ceremony was his own. The comedian, now 73, somehow missed being confirmed 60 years ago. Rabbi Seymour Rosen was delighted to go to the gambling casino where Youngman was appearing to correct the oversight, and Tenor Jan Peerce was cantor. "Today," cracked Youngman, after reading his prescribed prayers in phonetic Hebrew, "I am a boy." Years ago, he insisted, "you got a fountain pen when you were bar mitzvahed. Now you get a computer." But the punch lines...
Alan J. Pakula, W.V.O. Quine, Giscard D'Estaing and Seymour Slive...
...Allan Bakke, or the 1978 median income of U.S. families. Many of the retrieval systems are now available mainly to scholars and businesses. But Participant Nicholas Johnson, a former Federal Communications Commissioner, argued that libraries should spread access to this data among the citizenry. Manhattan Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. agreed: "A dramatic change in information dependency has taken place in our country, and the libraries are participants in that...
...dumpsite in Seymour, Ind., is known to have leaked cyanide for years, poisoning wildlife and water, while the regional office sat by idly; when the federal EPA ordered a $4 million cleanup, regional officials "cursed us up, down and sideways," Kaufman says, adding, "And when we asked them what they were going to do about those sites in their regions that were supposedly worse than Seymour, they said, 'Nothing, and stay...
Concluded Columbia Professor Seymour Melman in a report on the subject: "Cause and effect links the military economy to inflation and unemployment." The kernel of a thesis put forth by Professor Lloyd Dumas of the University of Texas is that "people who do military-related work and the firms they work for receive a flow of money that is not balanced by a production of goods and services that can be used to absorb that money...