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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There has always been and always will be one capital only-Jerusalem the Eternal," cried Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. "Thus it was 3,000 years ago and thus it will be, we believe, until the end of time." Then, bluntly defying the U.N. demand for Jerusalem's internationalization (TIME, Dec. 19), pugnacious Ben-Gurion moved the seat of his government from Tel Aviv to the Holy City...
...which had opposed the U.N. internationalization plan as highhanded and unrealistic, but now warned Israel against an "inflammatory move." The shift of Israel's capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had been long and carefully prepared; several government departments had quietly moved to the Holy City months ago. Last week, in his big black Cadillac, the Premier himself motored resolutely to Jerusalem. During his 90-minute drive through settlements along the way, hundreds of Israelis cheered...
...years on radio, Easy Aces won some fanatically enthusiastic fans (including Comic Fred Allen and Humorist James Thurber), but it never climbed into the Hooperating Top Ten or struck most network executives as hilariously funny. When Goodman Ace, 50, was fired two years ago by CBS, a sympathetic vice president tried to soften the blow by saying : "I'll tell you a secret-we haven't got a man who understands comedy." Ace replied: "I'll tell you a secret-that's no secret...
...Boston, Roman Catholic Archbishop Richard J. Gushing also saw a menace-in Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an organization which Bishop Oxnam helped found two years ago (TIME...
...sharp Nathan Cummings, chairman of the giant Consolidated Grocers Corp., thought there was something wrong. He felt that neither he nor the grocers were selling enough food. To find out how to boost sales, the boss of the largest U.S. food wholesaling organization packed a sample case eight weeks ago and took off on a tour of hundreds of stores in ten states. He frequently donned a cotton coat and worked for stores behind the counters, "cut the cans" (gave out free samples), watched shoppers' buying habits and gossiped with scores of customers...