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...army, on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion himself, was censoring all reports about it. Day after day newspapers appeared with great chunks of white space where censors applied scissors. Officers were identified in print only by the initials of their last names. But no one could conceal the fact that a deadly power struggle had been joined, with Ben-Gurion, 74, and his favored young Cabinet ministers on one side, and on the other, the so-called "Old Zionist" elders grouped around silver-haired Pinhas Lavon, 56, secretary of the powerful Histadrut trade-union federation. Quite as obviously...
...among his people, she readily agrees to go with him. But in Tunisia they are met by her husband's family, a noisy, colorful clan she was wholly unprepared for. Their food seems outlandish, their curiosity rude. After the long drawn-out, seemingly crude Passover celebration, she cannot conceal her disgust: "I never thought I was saying goodbye to prejudice and superstition at home simply to find myself plunging here into barbarism...
Pain & Sorrow. His portraits were almost ruthless in their candor. He did not even try to conceal the pain that his neglect had caused his wife, or paint out the sadness imprinted on his children's faces (see color). In time the painting joined the collection of Basilius Ame-bach, whose wise and scholarly father, Bonifacius (see color), began rounding up Holbein canvases during the first convulsive years of the Reformation. After Basilius' death, the city and the university bought the Amerbach collection, which they own to this day. It is Basel's permanent tribute...
...York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, who does not conceal his partiality for Democratic Nominee John F. Kennedy, weighed the two candidates and found them just about equal: "The job [Kennedy and Nixon] have to do cannot be done with personality or rhetoric, but only with cool analysis, efficient hard work, and political skill: and both have unusual capacity for precisely this kind of exercise. Both analyzed the problems of the nation in their acceptance speeches extremely well. Both concentrated on the future and left most of the usual nonsense about Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman, the party...
...time, she was only 21, and the artist never treated a subject with more tenderness. As usual, he did not care about background-the person was his concern-and he painted her sitting in darkness, yet glowing with light, her pale hands gracefully folded in a shy attempt to conceal her first pregnancy. But what makes the picture unforgettable is the expression on the face-the exquisitely sad look of one whose life has been stolen and who knows that no one will give it back...