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...marry Jews convert to Judaism-and, like most converts, tend to be stricter than their mates. In Los Angeles, for instance, two schools of instruction for converts function full time. Judaism traditionally declines to seek converts, but with a little proselytizing push, some Jewish leaders feel, conversions might eventually offset losses...
...postwar political balancing act, Proporz, to a happy band of anonymous voters who sportingly cast their ballots for a Socialist for the presidency, though they return the conservative People's Party in general elections. As a result, since the war Austria has had a Socialist President to offset the conservative Chancellors who headed its coalitions...
...Malgache-the largest single bloc of nations in Africa. Built around the thriving Western-oriented economy of the Ivory Coast and Senegal's traditional cultural leadership of French Africa, the OCAM represents 36 million Africans spread over one-fifth of the continent. One of its purposes: to offset the radical foreign policies of such hotheads as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, create a new moderate center of gravity for the continent's politics...
...line toward Moscow, and the recovery of the lands lost to Poland. Wilson did much to soften the traditional anti-German image of the Labor Party, and Erhard was considerably charmed. Britain's new leader returned home with a German promise to buy more British goods to help offset the sterling drain that results from maintenance of the British army on the Rhine...
Search for Lama. As U.S. ballet's most active angel, Rebekah Harkness hopes to offset the "dangers of centralization" presented by the New York City Ballet's George Balanchine. "If anything should happen to this remarkable man," she says, "we would all be running around like they do in Tibet looking for the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. I would like to find a few prospects for this post before we find ourselves in that predicament...