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/ Compiled by Elizabeth Applebaum

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Dorothy Parker, Von Karman
Will Take A Licking

How About A Tel Aviv
For A Shimon Peres?

collector an overview of Israel," added
emember the old days, when
Mr. Berro's partner, Michael Ross. The
you might trade a George Brett
two met at the Sacramento Jewish Fed-
for a Wade Boggs, but you
eration, where each ran a fund-raising
- would never get rid of a Dwight Good-
program. "Hopefully, they also will spur
_ en?
travel
to Israel."
Baseball cards were just the start of
Ten percent of the profits will be do-
it. Then came rabbi cards, featuring
nated to help resettle new immigrants
some of the world's leading Jewish fig-
in Israel.
ures from the past and
The cards come in 20
present. And now, here's
sets, the first of which
the latest craze: Holy Land
will roll off the presses
cards.
Oct. 1. A new series will
Produced by two
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be released quarterly.
Sacramento, Calif., busi-
To help promote the
nessmen, Cards of the
cards, Mr. Ross and Mr.
Holy Land are printed in
Berro are holding a pho-
four color and feature pic-
to contest. Any picture of
tures about Israel's poll-
Israel will be considered.
Tribe Of Benjamin
- tics, culture, people and The
Cards o the Holt Land Protoh e
First prize is a free trip to
,places. Information and a
Israel. Entries must be received by Dec.
_ biblical quote are on back.
31. Send to Cards of the Holy Land,
"Our goal is to make friends for Israel
1808 Sherwood Ave., Sacramento, Calif.
whether they are Catholic, Protestant
95822.
or Jewish," said Neil Berro, co-producer
For information about the cards,
of the cards. "We came upon the idea
write 915 21st St., Sacramento, CA
about a year-and-a - half ago when we
95814, or call (916) 446-4817.
were both at a trading card show."
"The cards are designed to give the

Fly Me To The Moon
(Or Maybe Just Israel)

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I Al has started a traveler's club
for anyone who makes trips
aboard the airline a regular

nine bonus points, they receive a free
round-trip ticket from Tel Aviv to a va-
riety of destinations in Europe. To earn
a round-trip tourist-class ticket from the
affair.
United States to Israel, one must accu-
Called Matmid, the club uses a point
mulate 12 points.
system to award bonus tickets. Points
Those wishing to join the club need
can be earned on all El Al flights to and
to show (through ticket stubs, board-
from such destinations as Israel, Africa,
ing passes or passports) thatthey have
S St i jaintegs Canhdi-
Bet
111, CElaAnarsda, geEwuersotpdees,
traveled to Israel at least two times in
El
the past 12 months and pay a mem-
na.
,
bership fee.
, Points are allotted with every flight
To receive a frequent traveler club
and vary according to destination. Trav-
application, call El Al, 1-800-223-6700.
elers who accumulate enough points
Meanwhile, El Al will launch a series
within any 12-month period receive
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of flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Inter-
I i D bonus tickets.
national Airport beginning Oct. 20. This
For example: a tourist-class pas-
I senger flying between the United States marks the airline's seventh gateway city
in the United States.
'') and Israel earns two points in each di-
rection. When passengers have earned

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heodore von Karman, the father
of modern aerodynamics, and
critic/playwright Dorothy Park-
er are really making their marks.
The U.S. Post Office this week will is-
sue two new stamps in their honor.
Ms. Parker, born Dorothy Rothschild,
first found fame as a drama critic for Van-
ity Fair and Vogue. She later worked at
the New Yorkerand, in 1926, began her
career as a freelance journalist. She wrote
a number of plays and books, including
Enough Rope, which featured her famous
line, "Men seldom make passes/at girls
who wear glasses."

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Give Some Thought
To A Shmitta Sitter

el Aviv (JTA) — Once every sev-
en years, residents of the Or-
thodox township of Bnei Brak
throw away their house plants, not
knowing how to deal with them during
shmitta, the "fallow year," when use of
produce or other products from the land
of Israel is prohibited.
But when Rosh Hashanah rolls
around next year, there will be an alter-
native, according to the Israeli daily
Ma'ariv.
A solution to the problem was found
by Arye Levkovitz, chairman of Judaism
Park, located on the grounds of the
Ma'ayanei Yeshuah Hospital in Bnei
Brak.
Mr. Levkovitz is offering to take in
the plants, which will be cared for by a
computer system programmed to wa-
ter them daily, with amounts calculat-
ed according to temperature and
humidity.
The plants will be grown hydropon -
ically, so that the vegetation does not
touch the soil and can therefore be re-
garded as "furniture." Fertilizers made
into self-timing pellets will be added
to the hydroponic mixture and delivered
gradually throughout the year.
Boarding rates for the plant baby-sit-
ting service have not yet been an-
nounced.

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She died in 1967 in New York City.
Dr. von Karman was the co-founder
of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a
leading consultant to NATO and the U.S.
Air Force. He received the first National
Medal of Science, awarded in 1963 by
President John Kennedy, and was a lead-
ing figure in the development of the U.S.
space program and of supersonic aircraft.
Born in 1881 in Budapest, Dr. von
Karman in 1929 settled in the United
States, where he served as head of the
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at
the California Institute of Technology. He
died in 1963.

Action Network Spearheads
Immunization Campaign

he Ghildren's Action Network
(CAN), founded in 1990 - by
leaders in the entertainment
industry including Steven Spielberg,
Gary Goldberg, Sid Sheinberg and
Henry Winkler, has launched a Na-
tional Immunization Campaign to get
children immunized against such dis-
eases as measles, mumps, rubella,
polio and whooping cough.
Working in conjunction with U.S.
Surgeon General Antonia Novello and
the American Academy of Pediatrics,
the campaign already has seen the
immunization of more than 100,000
children. It also resulted in the largest
increase ever in federal funding for

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immunization.
"In America today, children are
getting sick— and dying—from dis-
eases that are preventable," a CAN
spokesman said. "More children died
from measles lastyear than in any of
the last 20 years." He added that near-
ly one-third of American children aged
2 and under fail to get vaccinations -
a figure lower than that in countries
like Nicaragua and Colombia.
For a free brochure, "Ten Ques-
tions and Answers about How To
Help Protect Your Children from Get-
ting Deadly Diseases," call CAN,
1-310-470-9599,

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