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...lesson, took off his hat, sang, put his hat on again and went." Tucker was permanent cantor at the Brooklyn Jewish Center when he auditioned for the Met in 1944. The next year, on Jan. 25, he made his debut singing Enzo in La Gioconda-on a two-month leave of absence from his synagogue. He never gave up his role of cantor, and since 1961 had participated yearly in High Holy Days services at Chicago's Park Synagogue...
...again in the 20th, and the issue has been debated in countless forums in the intervening years. But the question of whether the Jews or the Romans were ultimately responsible for the execution of Jesus had never been threshed out in a civil court of law. Last week a two-month trial of the matter in Troyes, France, came to an end. The verdict: the Romans killed Jesus...
...raised in the bush do not always survive the ritual, which suggested that it is even more difficult for urbanized Chadians to endure. When Tombalbaye decreed that high government officials, regardless of their religious beliefs, be among the first group of initiates, the Minister of Agriculture argued that the two-month program would interfere with his efforts to increase farm production in the drought-stricken country. The Education Minister also objected that the initiation of teachers would interrupt schooling. A seven-month delay was granted, but this July a thousand Chadian officials were sent south to Yondo camps...
...two-month examination by three Globe staffers, begun before Kennedy withdrew from the 1976 race, was not a hatchet job. The liberal paper has always been sympathetic to Kennedy, yet felt that it had to go ahead with the story despite the Senator's decision to bow out as a national candidate. Said Editor Thomas Winship: "We are not out to drive Ted Kennedy from office. We are trying to get more details on an important story affecting a public figure who will continue to be important." The biggest obstacle in obtaining those details was the continued silence...
...plummeted as well. The Gallup poll found that 50% of those surveyed in late September, shortly after Nixon's pardon, approved of Ford's performance as President, down 21 points since a similar poll conducted about a week after he took office. It was the most precipitous two-month drop in 35 years...