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...seven-story building, white-cupolaed and monumental with pillars, fitted out inside with tiles and marble, English oak paneling, elevators, and hot-air blowers (instead of towels) in the lavatories. It cost $1,700,000-more than two-thirds of it from the pocket of British Chain Store Tycoon Isaac Wolf son-and the dedication ceremony was appropriate for a building that aspires to be the new center of religious law for all the world's Orthodox Jews...
Violinists: Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, Erica Morini, Michael Rabin, Ruggiero Ricci, Isaac Stern, Roman Totenberg...
...every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, wrote Sir Isaac Newton in his third law of motion. He might also have been describing a political law for the Middle East. Last week, only days after Gamal Abdel Nasser had announced the union of Egypt and Syria in a new United Arab Republic, the Kings of Jordan and Iraq reacted by proclaiming a union of their two nations in a rival Arab Federation...
...Father Isaac Thomas Hecker was in hot water. The 37-year-old Redemptorist had arrived in Rome to discuss with the head of his congregation a matter that was troubling some of its members in the U.S. -the best way to preach the Roman Catholic faith to Americans. Within a few days, he found himself expelled from the Redemptorist Congregation on the ground that his trip had violated his vows of obedience and poverty. For the next seven months, the worried priest hurried from prelate to prefect, pleading the need for an English-language mission to the U.S. At last...
American Methods. The Paulists' first century began with little more than Isaac Thomas Hecker's burning conviction that he, the son of German immigrants and a convert from Protestantism, was called to make new converts among the new people of a new country. He and his four companions-all converts and one (Father George Deshon) a West Point graduate-set about the task by making his society as American as they could...