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...main point of the saying you are quoting from my Tales of the Hasidim [March 23] is expressed not in the words you quote ["What the Torah teaches us is this: none but God can command us to destroy man"] but in the sequel: "And if the very smallest angel comes after the command has been given and cautions us: 'Lay not thy hand upon . . .' we must obey him." I would think it desirable to draw your readers' attention to this part of the saying...
...pigs and cows in Moore County have better representation in the Tennessee legislature than the citizens of Nashville and Davidson County." So complains Nashville's Mayor Ben West, referring to the fact that Tennessee's smallest county (pop. 3,454) has far greater voting power in the legislature than the second most populous one (pop. 399,743). Angered by the arrangement-and by the failure of the Tennessee legislature to redistrict since 1901-a group of Nashville citizens eight years ago started action that led to a major Supreme Court decision last week...
...fossilization in Boccaccio '70, in which Sophia is again la dònna popolana, playing an illiterate Neapolitan girl who works in a traveling fair and delivers her body each Saturday night to the winner of a raffle. The fair itself is alive with superb detail, from the smallest of watermelon seeds to the largest of the paunchy Italian farmers with hot breath and sausage fingers. In this milieu, Sophia is not a star showing off but a figure that belongs...
Mike Drummey returns to take command of the hot corner. Although the smallest man on the club (at 5-8, 145 pounds), Drummey has the best throwing arm and has been known to make some pretty unbelievable play. He hit around .240 last year, and Shepard thinks he can add 40 or 50 points to that average this season...
Only two men scored for the varsity track team Saturday at New York's Madison Square Garden, but one of them, Ted Bailey, exploded for a first-place effort. Bailey, by 35 lbs. the smallest man in the weight-throw field, took first with a heave of 63 ft., 5 in., his best never in competition...