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...Montreal ghetto, around 1925. The protagonist is an extraordinarily appealing little boy named David (Jeffrey Lynas). Struggling for possession of his young mind are his father (Len Birman) and his grandfather (Yossi Yadin). The former is a hustler, determined to abandon traditional Jewish ways and invent his way upward (creaseless pants, expandable cuff links−so you can roll up your sleeves without unlinking them). The latter is a sweet-spirited, loving junk dealer, who is equally determined to imbue David with the belief that an Orthodox faith can still serve successfully as a guide to existence...
Hance shares this concern for increased female political participation. Her effort in Phoenix included revamping city personnel practices to encourage women's upward mobility...
...here in the numbers they are today. A century and some years ago your great-grand and great-great-grandparents were owned by some white man. Things have not changed as much as some would have us believe. When I hear about equal rights, and equal opportunity and upward mobility, and when people tell me how much progress has been made and how lucky I am to be at Harvard, I don't have to think twice. I choke...
...Upward Mobility...
...latest rise in prices and joblessness. But even such inveterate critics of Administration policy as Walter Heller, Arthur Okun, Joseph Pechman and Otto Eckstein are satisfied that recovery is about on schedule, at least for now. Says Okun: "If anything, people are revising the level of their forecasts upward from last summer...