Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rejecters Rejected. To Sunday-school boys, Samaritan is a name synonymous with "good." But to the Jews of Jesus' day, Samaritans were a despised people. In the 8th century B.C. the Samaritan kingdom was called Israel. When the Assyrians "swept down like a wolf on the fold," they carried off most of the Israelites, leaving behind a destitute few who eventually intermarried with the invaders. Two centuries later, the Persian Cyrus freed the Jews of Jerusalem and returned them to their homeland; the Samaritans offered to help rebuild the temple, but were coldly rebuffed...
That family income or interest in another type of school keeps certain highly intelligent boys from swelling the number of applicants, is a fact likely to produce mixed emotions in the heart of an admissions director. It makes his job easier, that is certain, and keeps the IBM wolf from the door. At the same time, it raises doubts about equality of opportunity in the nation and of the Ivy League college's role as a melting pot of income and geographical groups...
Milo K. Fields, editor-publisher of the Glacier Reporter, used to worry that Tatsey's pungent reporting might draw libel suits. He worries no more. Most of Tatsey's neighbors-Mrs. Maggie Chief All Over, Francis B. (for Bull) Shoe, George Running Wolf Jr. and Sr.-complain only when they are ignored in his column. And the few who do mind Correspondent Tatsey's frank exposures get nowhere with Weasel Necklace, who doubles as a policeman on the 1,252,000-acre reservation. "I just tell them what's what," says Columnist-Cop Tatsey. "And that...
...Carney Meets the Sorcerer's Apprentice (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). A timely reunion of Actor Carney, Lyricist Ogden Nash and the Baird marionettes, who made a delightful TV debut last fall with Peter and the Wolf...
Nicholas Constantine Christofilos is a rumpled, somewhat obstreperous lone wolf in the ordered ranks of modern physicists. He has no degrees in physics, little formal training. But time and again, he has brought forth ideas that have proved right...