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As new American politics, Novak's plea for ethnic power can sound like the oldest American politics; one hears the rhetoric of a new Tammany promising the Slovak grandmother prune dumplings in the sky. In his general plea for decentralization - down with the bu reaucrats, up with neighborhood government...
While Jimmy Hoffa did his stretch at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, the place probably had the bluest-ribbon prisoners' committee ever seen behind U.S. bars. Hoffa organized it informally to hear and act on complaints. It included, according to him, L.B.J.'s former aide, Bobby Baker, serving one to...
Died. Harry Rogoff, 88, former editor in chief of the nation's leading Yiddish newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The Socialist-leaning Forward spoke for the horde of immigrants that arrived in New York City after World War I. Under the stewardship of...
IN an expansive mood, the mayor of Buffalo, N.Y., recently described himself as "the best mayor that money can buy." He was kidding, of course-but it was the kind of joke that many politicians today would make at their peril. Once such a line might have brought down the...
The Russians, in a sense, were acting like lawyers for their Arab clients; so, too, in an international-adversary situation, was the U.S. on behalf of Israel. It is precisely this echo of ordinary law practices in world affairs that intrigues Rogers and leads him to approach his duties from...