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...emphasize that point, his next stop after Bergen-Belsen was West Berlin, where he paid a visit to the city's Jewish Community Center. It stands on the site of what was once Berlin's Central Synagogue. All that remains of the original building is a chunk of wall. The rest was destroyed on the notorious "Crystal Night" of Nov. 9, 1938, when storm troopers savagely wrecked Jewish homes, synagogues and plate-glass ("crystal") shop windows. Before the war, 175,000 Jews lived in Berlin, but only 6,000 remain there today (with...
...rules do not flatly say so. Nor must schools spend as much per capita on girls' athletic programs as they do on boys'. If they did, Ohio State, for one, might have to sharply increase its spending on women's sports by slicing off a sizable chunk of the more than $3 million that it devotes to its big and lucrative men's program...
...problems that cause the kinds of deficits the Faculty has been running are the same all over America. Inflation has driven salaries--the biggest chunk of the Faculty's expenses--and the prices of goods, especially oil, up. The recession has pushed the value of stocks and the availability of money down. The Faculty has to pay out more money without corresponding increases in income...
...chunk of coal's future lies in turning it into something else, specifically gas or liquid fuel. ERDA'S fiscal '76 request for R. and D. in this field: $206 million. Currently, gasification is drawing the most interest, with three pilot plants already in operation. Two giant plants, costing $800 million each, are being planned for New Mexico by El Paso Co. and Wesco Financial, but the projects raise important legal and jurisdictional questions that are now being argued before the Federal Power Commission...
...restaurants to stores to a 500,000-circulation newspaper. Some estimate the worth of the Nation of Islam's business empire at $75 million. The businesses all have a long-range object: to prepare for the day when Allah gives the nation its own land, perhaps a sizable chunk of the present U.S., which Muhammad predicted was doomed to collapse before...