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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RARE CONVERSION, A JAPANESE SCHOLAR BECOMES A JEW. Though there are virtually no Jews in Japan, and Judaism is traditionally opposed to proselytizing, Philologist Setsuzau Kotsuji took the Jewish faith-after trying Shinto, Buddhism and Christianity-was circumcized at the age of 60. See RELIGION...
Last week, on the eve of the anniversary celebrations on the mainland (see FOREIGN NEWS), Hsinhua's Hong Kong bureau even tried a capitalistic-style venture into public relations. Staffers made one of their rare appearances outside the building on Sharp Street, played host to some 480 guests (non-Western journalists, diplomats, college professors) at a beer, wine and nibbles reception at the Gloucester Hotel. Asked how many Hsinhua staffers there are in Hong Kong, one replied in good Hsinhuaese: "Oh, we have several journalists...
Four years ago John Friedlein and William Miller, who teach chemistry and physics at the high school (683 students), began agitating to remodel their dingy classrooms (built in 1926), which seemed closer to the Bronze Age than to the Nuclear Era. Robert W. Schaerer, a rare kind of school-district business manager, was no man to laugh at them. He got them permission to scour the Midwest for plans that grew a bigger price tag by the hour. "We always went big," says Schaerer, "and this was really big. But the school board didn't duck it." One bond...
Twilight Zone (CBS, Fri. 10-10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is the sort of show that is rare on TV: a half-hour of dramatic entertainment with no pretensions beyond a fresh idea presented by people with a decent respect for the medium and the audience. Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling's stories of the "fifth dimension, between science and superstition," are plotted as carefully as his more ambitious 90-minute specials and are written, acted, directed with consistent competence. Whether the hero is an Air Force officer suffering hallucinations after more than 400 hours of isolation, or a tired...
...would plow the farmers' land, and the farmers figured that if young Ed could do it that easily, so could they. He earned $600 a summer. Winters he built and sold radios. He also rebuilt two nearly wrecked cars, thus became, at 16, one of Marne's rare two-car owners...