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...From the viewpoint of a moderately successful Jewish merchant, the future in Bobruisk, Belorussia looked very dim after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1920 Joseph Hecht and his wife decided to send their husky young sons, Shimon and Yehyel, to Palestine. It was a lucky break for the Hecht brothers, because as time went by, the chances of getting out of the Soviet Union diminished to nil. Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk. Shimon and Yehyel became foundation members of Degania B, a communal settlement in the Jordan Valley...
...Caruso's son Enrico Jr., 48,* and 28-year-old Grandsons Enrico and Roberto, were "disgusted" with Coke billboard and poster ads ballyhooing the picture. Not that they had anything in particular against Cokes, explained the younger Enrico, but "we Europeans look upon commercial advertising from a different viewpoint than Americans." The family took the matter to court and the "disgusting" ads were ordered blocked...
From the literary viewpoint, B. Traven can be identified with no trouble at all. In his novels, e.g., The Death Ship (1934), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935) and The Bridge in the Jungle (1938), he has written like a man with a bug in his ear, and the bug's favorite theme is the bad old days of predatory landowners and conscienceless capitalists. Any writer who follows this theme strictly is almost bound to fill his pages with the typed, dusty characters of proletarian fiction, Mr. Moneybags the Magnate, Mr. Whip the Overseer, Mr. Steel the Informer...
...said he had misunderstood the topic when contacted last week by telephone, and later rejected it because its wording favors a "negative viewpoint." He also objected to the phrase "for its citizens...
...Faculty is greedy about its authority and rightly so. Control of education by those who dispense it is fundamental to a university's independence and quality. But constant vigilence against possible inroads on its territory has not made the Faculty particularly receptive to the idea of including the student viewpoint in its considerations...