Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worldwide sales of Israel bonds and United Jewish Appeal contributions pumped some $550 million into the economy. Though those sources are thinning out-they are expected to yield only $230 million for all of 1968-such overseas friends as the Rothschilds and Sir Isaac Wolfson, the British retailing magnate, are currently spurring a drive for new investment capital...
Aside from the law, Fortas' lifelong interest has been music. His Sunday afternoon music group is famous as the "3025 N Street Strictly-No-Refunds String Quartet." Any visiting violinist or cellist who passes through Washington is likely to be pressed into service. The Justice numbers Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals among his friends, and has helped to arrange the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In a jest that his enemies might not recognize, he has sometimes introduced himself at White House functions as "Abe Fortas?I am a violinist." His Italian Guidantus violin...
LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 14-Sept. 8) is long on notable artists (Artur Rubinstein, Herbert von Karajan, William Steinberg, Isaac Stern) and short on program ideas. Still, the air is crisp and the execution usually exemplary at the picturesque lakeside resort...
...Isidor Isaac Rabi, SC.D., Nobel Prize physicist...
...race. Though the Sinatras-Frank and Nancy-have for reasons of their own renounced the Kennedys for Humphrey, the Vice President's supporting cast is far shorter and markedly less sexy. H.H.H.'s leading B.P.: Tallulah Bankhead, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Dempsey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Isaac Stern, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison and James T. Farrell. Couturiere Mollie Parnis is on the list -though of course Muriel makes almost all of her own clothes...