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Convinced that education is the way to preserve the identity of Judaism, Jewish organizations are showing increasing concern about the quality of their schools. This week 250 leaders of Conservative Judaism gathered at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to plan for future expansion. Next March the American Association for Jewish Education, which is now supported by 15 major organizations representing all branches of Judaism, will sponsor a national conference to discuss such problems as cooperative textbook development and coordinating schools run by individual synagogues under community-wide organizations. Toughest problem by far: how to reach the thousands of young...
...back in his sophomore year in 1919. Anyway, he'd run pretty well later on, founding Pan American Airways in 1927. Chairman and chief executive officer of Pan Am, Trippe accepted the foundation's 1965 Gold Medal Award at the banquet in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and chuckled: "The selection committee must have gone berserk...
...matter what Erikson section men may say, until senior year having an identity crisis is just an excuse for problems like breaking up with your high school girl because she wore white gloves all through Jubilee weekend, even the night you went to the Waldorf. The real identity crisis is produced by the questions asked on senior applications--"The Curriculum Vitae should be a picture of yourself as an individual...
Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was a wilderness of apple trees, fountains, and rearing white chicken-wire horses meant to conjure up the Normandy resort "Deauville, Ville du Cheval." It was time for the biggest party of October in New York, the April in Paris Ball. The 1,400 jewel-hung society folks from all over the U.S. and nearly 100 from Paris jammed into the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom and adjoining suites for a nine-hour blast for four French and American charities. "A gay and brilliant assemblage," said the society reporters next morning. It was indeed...
Waiting for Paul in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria was Lyndon Johnson. Officially, the first meeting of Pontiff and President on U.S. soil was expected to last about half an hour, but it was unthinkable that a normally voluble Italian and an incurably loquacious Texan could stick to schedule-so the two men, assisted by two interpreters, talked on for 46 minutes about Viet Nam, India, Pakistan, the Dominican Republic, the conquest of hunger. Paul praised recent U.S. efforts to advance the cause of civil rights. Johnson thought that the Pope's visit would provide a much needed...