Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your cover interests me . . . Perhaps Ben-Gurion is looking toward the future (including the old city as part of Israel) or toward peace between Israel and the Arab world...
...quite a few years I have waited for TIME to do a cover story on the Middle East's most forceful personality, David Ben-Gurion; now that you have done so, I would like to congratulate you on a fine and objective piece of writing...
...article contains a remark ["the man knows nothing about Buddhism"] allegedly made by Mr. Ben-Gurion on the occasion of the visit to Israel of U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma...
...BEN FRANKLIN'S PRIVATEERS, by William Bell Clark (Louisiana State University; $3.75), is a brief account of Franklin's efforts, as an American commissioner in France, to capture British seamen who could be exchanged for American prisoners held in England. His privateers, based on French ports, didn't get very far, but Author Clark had better get to the historical novel he has outlined in this book, or somebody else will...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by Carl Van Doren (Viking; $4.95), is a reissue of what is still the best of all books about Benjamin Franklin, a Pulitzer Prize biography that saw Ben plain, as few Americans have been seen by their biographers. Looming over all these, there is Ben Franklin's own Autobiography (available in everything from a 35? Pocket Book to Heritage's $5 edition), which, according to Van Doren, has seen more editions in the U.S. than any book save the Bible...