Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...tiny Republic of Israel was rocked last week by the most sensational political row in its twelve-year history. But Israelis themselves could not be sure what the row was about-or even which side was winning, because the army, on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion himself, was censoring all reports about it. Day after day newspapers appeared with great chunks of white space where censors applied scissors. Officers were identified in print only by the initials of their last names. But no one could conceal the fact that a deadly power struggle had been joined, with...
Road to Power. Poland-born Pinhas Lavon was Israel's Minister of Defense and touted as likely prime-ministerial material until 1955-when he was abruptly forced out of office. Ever since, he has insisted that the charges brought against him were false, but his claims were ignored. Then last August a government official, brought to court for misconduct in another matter, unexpectedly volunteered that "on orders from above," he perjured himself and forged the evidence on which Lavon was compelled to resign five years...
...could not go home. The 20-year-old youth had become interested in the World Federalists and decided he wanted to see more of the young nations of Africa. He headed south toward the Congo, planning to cross the continent to Kenya and Ethiopia, then make his way to Israel before returning to the U.S. He made his own way by hitching rides on passing trucks or jeeps, even in boxcars on the occasional trains that passed; often he slept in the mud huts of natives he had befriended along the route, shared their rude fare at mealtimes...
...edict which a Nixon press aide violated last week by issuing a release which quoted an Israeli newspaper's call for U.S. Jews to vote for Nixon because he would do so much for Israel. Last week three former leaders of Jewish organizations objected to "this shocking appeal for votes from Americans of Jewish faith...
...English stock-company actress, she followed her mother to the U.S., got a job in stock in San Francisco, soon found herself touring with Lionel Barrymore, who undertook to educate her by reading aloud from Kipling's Jungle Books. Her first success, the title role in Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann, so moved critics during the play's three-year run that they "always seemed to write about new-mown hay when they saw it." Shaw went to Merely in London in 1904 and saw more than hay: "I'm forever yours devotedly. I take...