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...Willian Chase Greene, professor of the classics at Harvard, turned the trick [with his prize poem, Richard I Before Jerusalem] as a Rhodes scholar...
TIME, April 28, stated that all Jerusalem, old and new, is a "strangled city," that both sections have suffered an economic relapse since their separation, and that Communism, "directed from Haifa in Israel (where it is legal)," is making headway in Jerusalem...
...City of Jerusalem never had industries or commerce of its own. It lived primarily on tourist revenue . . . The New City . . . has made remarkable progress since the establishment of the State of Israel. When the 1948 siege was lifted, only 70,000 residents were left. Its population now is 154,000 and is still growing...
...shockheaded Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and 35-year-old Yigal Yadin, army chief of staff. In their wake rattled 42 U.S.-built Sherman tanks and 60 British-built half-tracks, while overhead flew three Flying Fortresses and squadrons of Spitfires, Mosquitos and Da-iotas. (Only four years ago, Jerusalem's one mortar had been rushed from danger point to danger point, to deceive Jordan's Arab Legion...
...laundry because she is not allowed to ride on the white man's buses. It is Veteran John Kumalo, a talented Negro broadcaster, beaten up and jailed on the way to his broadcasting studio, and released three days later, innocent of any offense. In Malan's "New Jerusalem," the black man works but he does not vote; he pays taxes, but government schools for Negroes scarcely exist. If he is sick and visits a white doctor he must wait outside or go to the back door...