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...President Eugene Black, who calls himself a conservative banker "committed to the future," sunnily predicted that the national incomes of the U.S. and Western European nations would double "in just over 20 years." In the Middle East Egypt's aggressive Prime Minister Nasser and Israel's combative Ben-Gurion both promised U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to enforce a ceasefire along the Gaza strip and the Negev. In London the touring Russians, Khrushchev and Bulganin (or Bim and Bom, in the oblique language of Russian jokesters), got the kind of social, personal and diplomatic chill that only...
...himself was characteristically uninformative in public, Cairo reported that he won Nasser's agreement to a plan for reducing border tensions, mainly by creating a buffer zone extending 550 yards on either side of the frontier, within which U.N. military representatives would patrol. Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion had turned down such an idea of Nasser's before, but now was reported agreeable. From Ben-Gurion, Hammarskjold next wanted a written pledge that no troops would be ordered across Israel's frontiers...
Married. Renana Ben-Gurion, 30, second daughter of Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion; and David Leshem, 32. engineer; in Tel Aviv...
...borders to help dig defenses. At the annual convention of the powerful Israeli General Federation of Labor (Histadrut), there were no ringing calls to arms in the labor leaders' speeches. "I prefer even this miserable peace to either war or victory," said one delegate. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, himself just back from a day of stringing barbed wire along the Egyptian frontier, told the delegates: "We would rather have less water from the Jordan and an agreement with our neighbors," referring to one of the principal items of Arab-Israeli contention, "than more water and no agreement." He promised...
...arms, said Ben-Gurion, if the U.S. failed to provide them, the Israelis might be forced to look elsewhere for them-presumably Russia. Soviet Ambassador Abramov spent part of last week in close conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Sharett. The meeting, said a government spokesman darkly, was "of prime importance...