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...convincing partisan of the Bronx High School of Science is its principal, Alexander Taffel, 47, who took over the job this year when widely known Former Principal Morris Meister became president of the new Bronx Community College. Says Taffel, onetime gifted student at Townsend Harris, a high school shut down by New York City in 1942 in a wave of economy and possible equalitarianism: "We do a better job than comprehensive schools do in their honors courses. The teacher is the key; in our school the teacher doesn't have his courses divided so that he has to spend...
Last October the federal grand jury in Florida returned a secret indictment against Congressman Michaelson, charging him with illegally importing "six quarts of John Haig whiskey, two quarts of creme de menthe liquor, one quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond...