Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best, The Little Photographer, tells a brooding crime story about a beautiful marquise who dallies in the bracken with an impoverished young photographer, then shoves him off a cliff to a Mediterranean grave. In the televersion, retitled The Violent Heart by Adapter Leslie Stevens, the little photographer (Ben Gazzara) died when he accidentally crashed through the balustrade of a Riviera ruin. This sapped the story of much of its mystery. But what Heart lost in plot, it made up for in atmosphere and pictorial splendor-and a fine new twist at the end. Like Aeschylus' avenging Eumenides, the photographer...
...ceremony marking Dayan's resignation, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went to the unusual length of putting on a tie, addressed Dayan affectionately as "Dear Moshe." Israelis expect Dayan to run for Parliament in the elections next year, take over the post of Defense Minister now held by Ben-Gurion...
...Ben-Gurion is still spry, but increasingly conscious of his years. Some suspect he had deliberately ordered Dayan out of uniform and into politics with the idea of grooming him as his successor...
...then he knows that he is a big factor in the calculations of thousands of bettors, and he is constitutionally unable to give them anything less than the best he has. That best is so good that few trainers bother him with pre-race instructions. "He's like Ben Hogan, concentrating shot by shot," says Trainer Tommy Kelly. "He doesn't look right or left or smile. I tell you, Bill'd get the mostest out of any horse. If the horse can't win with him on it, hell, I'd peddle the horse...
Kastner denied that he was a traitor; if he had acquiesced in deaths he could not prevent anyway, it had been in order to save as many Jews as he could. The Mapai Party of Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett, embarrassed by the charges because Kastner was a party official and a Mapai candidate for the Knesset, confidently decided to prosecute Gruenwald for libel. For a year and a half the case dragged on, and all Israel bled from this opening of old wounds. In June 1955 Judge Benjamin Halevy ruled that Gruenwald was substantially right. Kastner, said the judge...