Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed and Written by JOAN MICKLIN SILVER...
When Israelis want to get married, they are well advised to check with the rabbinical registrar before hiring a caterer or ordering silver. For civil marriage does not exist in Israel, and all Jews-religious and nonreligious alike -must get approval for weddings from the strict Orthodox rabbinate. In many cases the result has been the dismaying discovery that they are considered psulai hitun-"unmarriageable." Under halakhah, the traditional religious...
...swim around or crawl over a log; it just puts its head against the log and keeps pushing." Currently, the silver-flecked, blond head of Georgia's former Governor can be seen pushing and pushing hard-pushing to win the Democratic Party's 1976 presidential nomination. Carter, who has been determinedly pursuing delegates since last December, is now making surprising progress...
...LIKE SILVER BALLS rolling down the slope of a pinball machine, the presidential hopefuls shuttled through St. Louis this summer, trying to score some points at the Young Democrats' August convention. They bounced off the same bumpers, usually variations on energy and the economy, and often at the same angles, emphasizing continued price controls on domestic oil and public service jobs. Some bounced harder than others, advocating the breakup of the oil companies or wage and price controls in the inflation-prone food and energy sectors of the economy. The lights whirred and the bells changed, and the Young Democrats...
President Valery Giscard d'Estaing shuns a large security force, once walked a foreign visitor back to his hotel late at night, and enjoys driving himself about in his silver Peugeot 504 with a car of security men in tow. He has of late given up an initial penchant for trying to lose the back-up car in the whirls of Paris traffic. On routine trips into the countryside, four or five agents of the Service of Official Trips accompany the President, a force that grows to 25 when he is confronted with large holiday crowds. As in most...