Word: ben-gurion
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...GIVE TO ISRAEL TILL IT HURTS." Israel is the great new fact of Jewish existence. Since 1948, American Jews have poured about a billion and a half dollars into the new state, although only a few thousand have answered ex-Premier Ben-Gurion's call to become Israeli citizens. Israelis are sometimes skeptical of such vicarious participation in their pioneering and have been known to call their American brethren "alimony Jews"-willing to pay but not to live with it. The emergence of a tough state of modern Maccabees has tremendously strengthened Jewish morale, pride and prestige...
Forgotten Experts. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard called a Cabinet meeting to discuss Nasser's possible motives for flouting Bonn. They were already well known and centered on a 1960 meeting at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between then Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israel's then Premier David Ben-Gurion. Adenauer, always sensitive about Germany's former crimes against the Jews, arranged to hand over $70 million worth of military equipment to Israel, with the approval-and possibly the urging-of Washington. The operation was so secret that Bonn's Foreign Ministry only discovered it by accident late...
...Convention Hall was jammed to its 3,000-seat capacity and, said an official, "We could have sold out the hall five times over." It was time for the third International Bible Quiz, a triennial event that has become an international institution in the land of Benjamin and Ben-Gurion...
Married. Dorian Leigh, 44, queen of U.S. fashion models until she passed the scepter to her younger sister, Suzy Parker; and Iddo Ben-Gurion, sometime playwright, no kin to Israel's former Premier; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Paris...
...words still seemed to carry the old, sibilant indignation of the ancient lion. Liberia's President William Tubman cabled: "The urn of grief has been opened and is being filled with the tears of friends the world over." Israel's David Ben-Gurion only asked...