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...once infamous city of Sodom,* which has been pretty much out of the news since Lot's Wife turned into a pillar of salt and the whole sinful citizenry got its comeuppance (Genesis 19), was back in the limelight. Tel Aviv's Chamber Theater Company arrived in Sodom to perform for the local miners and settlers-among them, Israel's former Premier David Ben Gurion, now a sheep farmer. On a stage set up near the Dead Sea, 1,200 ft. below sea level, the actors put on a new play, Casablan, dealing with the social...
...European market. General Tire & Rubber Co., which bought control of Crosley, has made a deal to give Crosley's equipment to Israel's Abena Investment & Development Co. in exchange for a half-interest in the Israeli company. Machinery will be moved from Marion, Ind. to Tel Aviv. Abena will use cheap (about $3 a day) labor to turn...
...narrow-gauge railway that winds into the city alongside Jordan territory so close that sunflower seeds spat from the train windows fall onto Arab soil. Where Jordan bulges westward, the Israeli beachhead is barely eight miles wide. It takes less than 20 minutes to drive from Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean to the Jordan border...
...Kfar Saba, a stone-and-stucco frontier outpost twelve miles from Tel Aviv, the border runs through tangled orange groves. Almost every night Arab infiltrators flit from tree to tree, and so across the border, to steal and destroy. Some of the intruders are harmless: they come to visit Arab relatives left on the Israeli side, or to steal a bag of oranges from groves that were once their own. But in the past month the settlers of Kfar Saba have lost six cows, seven mules, three horses and three donkeys...
Died. Monnett Bain Davis, 60, veteran foreign-service officer, U.S. Ambassador to Israel since 1951, onetime Ambassador to Panama (1948-51); of a heart ailment; in Tel Aviv...