Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a southern military academy, and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
...welcome TIME'S high-level handling of the important story of the Ben-Gurion-Goldmann ideological dispute. You have helped to illuminate Zionism as an issue of concern to men of all faiths. However, Ben-Gurion's and Goldmann's "prestige' may be high among Zionists, but your reference to it as high among "Jews" is dubious. Most Jews are indifferent or hostile to Zionism. We reject the "Jewish" nationalism of Zionism and hold that Judaism is a religious faith of universal values...
Back home again, Ben Barka began casting about for suitable self-help projects, soon thought of the rugged Rif mountains, which form a natural barrier between North and South Morocco and until last year marked the boundary between the French and Spanish zones of occupation. Following the classic policy of divide and rule, the two occupying powers had left the central Rif roadless and virtually impassable. One thing Morocco could do, decided Ben Barka, was to build a road through...
Tents & Tasks. In late spring, with the enthusiastic approval of Morocco's new King Mohammed V, Ben Barka made a dramatic appeal to young men: give your country one month's labor on the Unity Road. Of the 36,000 youths who answered his call, 12,000 were finally selected on the basis of geographical distribution-Negroes, fair-skinned Berbers, and Arabs from the coastal cities. France (in whose detention camps ex-Revolutionary Ben Barka spent nearly four years) contributed tents for the volunteers and the U.S. provided $100,000 worth of blankets, mess kits and army uniforms...
Expected to cost roughly $500,000-less than half what it would have cost to build it with conventional labor-the Unity Road will serve as an invaluable commercial and political link between Morocco's interior and its Mediterranean ports. More important in Ben Barka's eyes is the fact that it has already created 12,000 missionaries for a new Morocco, men who will serve as leaders in future self-help projects. "We are building the road," reads the motto of Ben Barka's volunteers, "and the road is building...