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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flamboyant newcomer to Israeli politics who bears one of the most celebrated names in Israeli history. He is Major General Ezer Weizman, 45, the former commander of the Israeli air force and the nephew of the late Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President (Ezer dropped the second "n" as a gesture of independence). A member of the irredentist Gahal party, whose representation in the Cabinet increased from two to six, Weizman shed his uniform only last week to become Transportation Minister...
...rigorously trimmed back on money-losing operations. Last week, six days before Christmas, Goodrich closed down a rubber footwear plant in Watertown, Mass-and with it went the jobs of 950 employees. In that case, the closing had been announced in July. "Let's be frank," says John N. Hart, Goodrich vice president and controller. "If we can't improve our performance, we don't deserve to survive, either as a company or as its managers...
...winter night in 1948, two weeks after the Communists had seized power in Czechoslovakia, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk fell to his death from his third-floor apartment in the Cernín Palace. Despite an official report that he had committed suicide, many Czechoslovaks believed he had been murdered by Soviet secret police. During Alexander Dubček's short-lived regime in 1968, a new inquest was ordered into Masaryk's death. Then came the Soviet invasion. Last week the new report was finally released, and it proved to be a tortured compromise between the Soviet position...
Western scientists were frankly skeptical. Russian Chemists N. Fedyakin and Boris Deryagin claimed to have produced a mysterious new substance, a form of water that was so stable it boiled only at about 1,000°F., or five times the boiling temperature of natural water. It did not evaporate. It did not freeze-though at -40°F., with little or no expansion, it hardened into a glassy substance quite unlike...
...Brown 72 of Quincy House and Grosse Point Woods. Mich., Jonathan P. Carlson '72 of Mather House and Minncapolis. Minn., Robert W. Decherd '73 of Straus Hall and Dallas, Tex., Leonard S. Edgerly '72 of Claverly Hall and Wayland, Mitchell S. Fishman '694 of Leverett House and Hicksville, N. Y., Arthur H. Lubow '73 of Straus Hall and New York City. David E. Sellinger '72 of Quincy House and Newton Centre, and John A. Simop '72 of Dunster House and Chicago to the News Board: Lynn M. Darling '72 of Cabot Hall and Fairfax, Va., Jeffrey S. Golden...