Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When rabbis throughout Israel protested, government pork sales were discontinued, but the administration of Socialist Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion insisted that there was nothing wrong with selling pork on the free market. With a go-ahead sign like that, the owners of Israel's 30-odd pig farms began to sell their swine. Restaurant customers soon found their drab diet of cod fillets varied by the introduction of pork cutlets at $2.80 a portion, and housewives were able to purchase some nice cuts...
Although many normally observant Jews, driven by the meat shortage, were eating pork, most of them felt uneasy about it. Said Legislator David Ha'Cohen, a member of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's party: "I don't keep a kosher kitchen in my home, but to see Jews ordering pork chops in butchers' shops licensed by the Jewish state hurts something deep inside...
...will probably rise as they continue to play around the world. A few well-remembered oldtimers are still on the list: No. 21, The Big Parade (1925), with John Gilbert, $5,500,000; No. 46, The Four Horsemen (1921), with Rudolph Valentino, $4,500,000; No. 83, Ben Hur (1926), with Ramon Novarro...
...wife, his constant traveling companion, acts as business manager and secretary. "I need her," explains Mangrum. "This is big business." But at 38 Mangrum no longer feels that he is up to the demands of continuous tournament play. He also' feels that the competition is tougher than in Ben Hogan's heyday. "Those who have been trying for years are now coming into their own," tie says. "It used to be that four or five good players would take all the tournaments. Now there are 30 or 40 potential winners. That means you've got more players...
...Diego Open, Mangrum finally showed the strain of his recent winning spree. After a fine opening-round 68, he slipped to a fourth-place finish ($840). (The winner, just as Mangrum predicted: up & coming Tommy Bolt, 34, unknown two years ago.) But Mangrum, who once said of Ben Hogan, "the little man is the only one in golf I've ever feared." is still the man to beat in any tournament he enters...