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...Israeli town of Petah-Tikva last week, the quiet of a summer's night was suddenly shattered by the half-forgotten sound of incoming Katyusha rockets. One shell hit a hospital, killing an elderly woman patient. Two more damaged an elementary school closed for vacation. A fourth killed a five-year-old girl sitting on a porch. Next morning a spotter plane located the Russian-made rocket launcher 41 miles away near the Arab village of Deir Ballut...
Died. Maurice Schwartz, 69, founder, director and leading actor of New York's Yiddish Art Theater, which from 1919 to 1950 produced about 150 plays-from Shakespeare to Sholom Aleichem-and such alumni as Paul Muni and Stella Adler; of a heart attack; in Petah Tikva, Israel...