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Four months later he was well enough to be moved to Felsopeteny Castle in the north, where the soldiers of Hungary's short-lived revolution found and liberated him (TIME, Nov. 12). When he finally reached his old house in Budapest's Uri Street ("many windows were broken"), his housekeeper celebrated his return with a chicken lunch, and afterwards his old valet brought him a cigar. The cardinal accepted it gratefully, then carefully cut it in half to share it with the old man. "A whole cigar is too much," he explained. "It might be too heavy...
...Harvard Law School Research in Aid of Israel's Legal Development is a cooperative research project between Harvard and the Israeli Ministry of Justice. The idea was born last spring when Uri Yadin of the Israell Ministry of Justice visited Cambridge and spoke to several faculty members about the handicap imposed an adequate legal system. At present Israel's law is a mixture derived from Turkish, English Arabic, and Hebrew codes, and there are many serious gaps to be called in addition to many archaic laws which must be revised...
...idea for the program arose last spring, when Uri Yadin, Director of the Department of Legal Planning of the Israel Ministry of Justice, visited the Law School and broached the proposal to several faculty members. Final plans were arranged early this fall...
Thus last week the free Swiss acted out the ceremony that gave them their freedom. Six hundred and fifty years before, representatives of the three "forest cantons" of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden had gathered in the same glade to light a fire symbolizing their confederation against the house of Habsburg. To celebrate their independence day the Swiss every year build huge leaping bonfires instead of shooting off fireworks...
...least one section of world Jewry took the Government's list calmly. In Palestine, young, race-conscious refugee Jews have been prompt to rid themselves of such German names as Hans, Fritz, Gretchen. Popular today among Palestinian youths are, for males, Uri, Shmuel, Micha; for females, Brocha, Ayala, Ruth. So, in Manhattan last week, reported Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national chairman of "Youth Aliyah," an immigration service sponsored in the U. S. by Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization. Mrs. Greenberg was pleased to see Hadassah- Biblical name of Esther, Jewish queen and nemesis of the Persian plotter Haman...