Word: shop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triple yearning of the immigrant-to be free, to learn and to succeed. This riptide of desire roars across the stage in a number called Anything Is Possible, a paean to the American dream in which Kaplan outlines his own humble wish to have a tailor's shop with his name over it. He gets it, and he also gets his night-school sweetheart, Rose Mitnick (Barbara Minkus...
...Aviv I had been told the story of an Arab merchant in Nablus who had preferred to close shop rather than cooperate with the Israeli authorities and do business with Jews. He was afraid of revenge by the local population after the return of Arab control. He had a piece of land which he planned to cultivate as soon as his stock ran out. It turns out to be a very uncharacteristic case. There has been general cooperation on the part of the people. Most teachers and civil servants have remained at work. Many of the police have stayed...
...television newscasting nowadays, everybody's got his own private beat. but NBC's laconic Edwin Newman, 49. is a universalist, the one guy in the shop who is considered au courant on everything...
...tinkerer who started out in a small basement shop 16 years ago, Lyngsø credits the gadget with cutting down the proliferation of meetings that have come with the growth of his own firm, Søren T. Lyngsø, Dansk Servo Teknik, to two plants and 160 employees. He finds that the machine starts saving money even before conferences start: nowadays his managers whenever possible skip calling meetings rather than watch the machine add up the cost...
Died. Gerhart Eisler, 71, Communist agent and propagandist, who in 1949 escaped from U.S. authorities and set up shop in East Germany; of a heart attack; in the Republic of Armenia, USSR Emigrating to the U.S. from France during World War II, Eisler became the classic agent, a bespectacled little man living quietly in Queens, N.Y., and even serving as a World War II civil defense warden. Then, in 1946,1nformer Louis Budenz fingered him as one of Moscow's top agents-organizer of Red undergrounds in Spain, France, Switzerland and now the U.S., where he bossed the wartime...