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David Ben-Gurion, who carries beneath the wild halo of his white hair great visions but little patience for political compromise, has ruled the country with difficulty. To satisfy the Jewish Orthodox bloc in his cabinet he accepted the virtual prohibition of civil marriages, the import of pork, the use of public buses on the Sabbath. But when the Orthodox faction demanded that education in the immigrant camps be turned over to the rabbis, Socialist "B.G." exploded, sought new elections. He hoped to win an absolute majority for his Mapai party (ideological twin of the British Labor party) which held...
...projects in that area under the Pick-Sloan Plan. But that was not done because there was local opposition to using large areas of farm land for reservoirs, differences of opinion on how the job should be administered, people who thought the plan too ambitious and too full of pork barrel. Said General Pick: Let's get going...
...Have your griddle greased with a slab of bacon rind or some salt pork skin. Heat to the proper temperature to produce the deep orange glow so essential to the seductive pancake...
...million worth of pork-barrel projects tucked into the rivers & harbors bill by Harry Truman, slapped away the eager hands of members pleading for pet projects, sent the $514,400,000 appropriation to the Senate...
This year, as election time approached, a fusion party decided to upset the Whig pork barrel. The fusionists chose as their champion a sixtyish, reform-minded Kru tribesman named Dihdwo Twe (pronounced Daydaw Tooey), who at the age of 15 had hitchhiked his way to an education in the U.S. and friendship with Mark Twain. Tubman, although he has more than a political grudge against his opponent-Twe is married to Tubman's ex-wife-did not interfere with Twe's campaign. For a while it looked as if Liberia might have a real election...