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...Aviv or Beirut? Nasser hopes, of course, that in a few years there will be no need for such antiquarian arms as tanks, ships and planes. Egypt is developing three brands of short-range missile-the 230-mile-range Al Zafer (Victorious), the 375-mile Al Kaher (Conqueror) and the 500-mile Al Raid (Pioneer). Linked with the nuclear warheads that Nasser hopes to develop or acquire, they might give him the upper hand over Israel, provided...
...Britain did not interfere. Even at that, though, the Israelis seem pretty safe. As one West German rocketeer in Egypt mourns: "Our guidance systems are so unreliable that if we were to aim for Tel Aviv, it's an even bet that we'd hit Beirut...
...three-week vacation in Israel, Author John Steinbeck, 63, told Tel Aviv reporters about his next book, a "diagnostic" work called America and the Americans. "We have achieved comfort, ease and security," said the Nobel prizewinner. "Now the problem is survival and finding new things worth accomplishing." He figured the book was worth accomplishing because "Europeans always take us apart. It's never been done by an American." And what about H. L. Mencken, just...
...four years of quiet to work," and pleasantly referred to Ben-Gurion's shrill taunts as "our little rupture in Mapai." On election day, the Mapai mobilized 60,000 "volunteers" to get out the vote with bus and taxi, scheduled flights from the Red Sea to enable Tel Aviv vaca tioners to get home and cast their ballots...
Some Jews have found more ingenious solutions. One Orthodox kibbutz near Tel Aviv turns to hydroponic farming during Shemittah: seeds are planted in 90-ft.-long gravel-filled concrete plots, where they are chemically treated until the year is out. Although the method is expensive, the plants grow bigger than they do in ordinary soil. Another farm grows its crops in chemically-treated straw. Less scrupulous kibbutzim get around the prohibition against planting during Shemittah by covering their tractors with canopies; according to one tortuous rabbinical interpretation, planting is legal if it is done inside an enclosure. Horrified...