Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politics, and by his refusal to endorse their plan for complete integration of Algeria into France. They were alarmed by the report that, as a gesture to Morocco's King Mohammed V, De Gaulle was trying to find a graceful way to release Rebel Chieftain Mohammed ben Bella, whom the French had kidnaped off a Moroccan plane late in 1956 (TIME...
...Jerusalem that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed sprang from Zionist and Socialist dreams in 19th century European ghettos. In their idealistic zeal the pioneers of the new Zion tilled the desert and made it blossom like Isaiah's rose, filled the cities with factories until they hummed like Ezekiel's wheel. In the first decade of independence they brought 915,000 immigrants from Europe, Asia and Africa in a visionary "Ingathering of the Exiles" that more than doubled the tiny republic's population, and made it a dynamic and orderly body politic in sharp contrast with...
...managing editor: studious, gregarious John Nicholas Popham, 47, for the past eleven years the New York Times's chief Southern correspondent. Johnny Pop-ham's appointment completed the replacement of the paper's aging top brass that was started 16 months ago when Ben Hale Golden, 47, became publisher...
Died. Benjamin Franklin White, 85, patriarch of harness racing, only four-time winner of trotting's highest honor, the Hambletonian; in Orlando, Fla. Ontario-born Ben White started wintering horses in Florida during the '205, founded Orlando's municipally owned Ben White Raceway, harness racing's winter-training capital...
...Hussey and Hal Close finished second and third respectively in the Darcy Cup race, followed by William Alcorn and Ben Boldt...