Word: ben
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...varsity squash team dropped out of the National Team Squash Championships yesterday in the first round. A powerful Canadian team edged the Crimson, 3 to 2. In the singles division, Ben Heckscher bowed to Hugh Foster '50, 14-15, 15-11, 15-10, 15-9, also in the first round...
...first and second singles, however, Ben Heckscher and Cal Place won easily over Ken Van Riper and Jerry Evans, 3 to 0. Lee Folger and Dwight Davis each took 3-1 decisions at fifth and ninth singles respectively...
Immediately after the match, the varsity heads for Hartford for the National Squash Championships Saturday and Sunday. Ben Heckscher will compete in the individual championship against such players as top seeded Henri Salaun and G. Diehl Mateer, both former national champions...
...Premier David Ben-Gurion sized him up as a valuable person to be traveling about the Middle East, buttonholed him at once to press his pet plan for Palestine peace-bilateral negotiations with Egypt's Nasser under U.N. chairmanship. Ben-Gurion is pushing this idea to avert mediation by Western powers, and particularly to keep out the British, whom the Israelis regard as pro-Arab. As in Cairo, Hammarskjold listened sympathetically, and would only say that he had now "got a fairly complete map" of the problems...
...French-run mines, rebates on imported cars and machinery, reputed revenue from 6,000 prostitutes. His power rested on 30,000 tribesmen whom he used to enforce French colonial policies. In 1953 El Glaoui, an astute sniffer of political winds, aided the French in selling out the legitimate Sultan ben Youssef. Last fall he reversed himself when nationalist sentiment rallied around Ben Youssef, helped recall him to the throne, crawled on his hands and knees to beg forgiveness: "I am a slave at His Majesty's feet ... May heaven's curse fall upon those who deceived...