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...Jack Javits might have deemed himself fortunate indeed to have gotten even crumbs. Reared on the abrading edge of self-sufficiency, he was the second son of Morris Jawetz, a former Talmudic scholar in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Ida Littman, daughter of a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman from Vienna who abandoned his family. Morris' proudest possession?about his only one?was his name; he traced its origin to a Biblical family of scribes that lived at Jabez (/ Chronicles 2: 55) near Jerusalem. He changed its spelling after arriving...
Whatever the immediate peril - pow er failure or transit strike, water short age or race riot - New York City, like Pauline, invariably manages a third-reel deliverance before crisis turns to catas trophe. The city's latest ordeal, a dearth of funds that has threatened imminent, crippling reduction of municipal services, was averted last week as usual at disaster's doorstep...
...were kidding before, But not any more. Get your-er-selves into space Or we'll take your place. Stafford and Cernan themselves wryly presented the launch crew with a yard-long red and white baton topped by a light bulb. It was a match, they explained, that the crew was to use to achieve a successful "burn...
...husband Carlo, a foppish ne'er-do-well, died in 1785; Napoleon was essentially his mother's creation. "France is ablaze," she told him as a youth, "but it is a noble bonfire, my son, and worth the risk of getting burnt." Icily realistic, she threw cold water on his early sizzling success. "Let's hope it lasts," she said at his coronation. Later she advised against involvement in Spain and Russia, Napoleon's two biggest mistakes. Eerily vatic, she was "informed" of his death on the very day it happened, 5,000 miles away...
Living year-round in this wretched tourist town is a gang of resolute ne'er-do-wells who wait for the swinging summer months to con the vacationers. Leader of the group is Tinker (Oliver Reed), a street photographer and sex mechanic, who snaps pictures of new arrivals, his way of tagging every new bird on the scene. He and his cronies nest down with most of them, though their conquests seem singularly joyless. Typical, for Tinker, is one giddy pickup who starts nattering about love the minute she gets her clothes...