THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 6 October 31, 1975 Bellow Second in Nobel Vote NEW YORK — Prize- winning American novelist Saul Bellow warmly ap- plauded the announcement that Italian poet Eugenio Montale was chosen over him to receive the 1975 No- bel Prize for literature. Bellow, vacationing in Is- rael, said that "it is nice that Montale won the Nobel Prize. I'm not disappointed. There's plenty of time to win it yet." The Nobel committee was reported to be bitterly split between the 79-year- old Montale and the 60-year-old Bellow. Montale is not well known outside of Italy. He was popular during the 1920s and 30s. Montale stayed out of politics throughout his career, but was anti-Fascist during the rise of Mussolini, resigning his post as curator SAUL BELLOW of an institute in Florence in 1935 rather than be asso- ciated with Fascists. Joint Council Helps Maalot, Arab Town NEW YORK — An exper- iment in peaceful coexist- ence between the town of Maalot, the scene of a mas- sacre by Arab terrirists last May, and the neighboring Arab village of Tarshiha has produced substantial bene- fits, according to a study sponsored by the Israel of- fice of the American Jewish Committee. Maalot, with a population of under 5,000, predomi- nantly of Asian-African ori- gin, and Tarshiha, with more than 2,000, have had a joint local council since 1963. The study found that Tar- XXXXXXXXX)