Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel. In an hour-long interview Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban sought to persuade Dulles that Premier David Ben-Gurion's dismissal of moderate Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett did not mean a return to the policy of answering Arab raids with reprisals-in-force. State, unconvinced, thinks that news reports quoting Ben-Gurion as having threatened Jordan with armed retaliation (in defiance of the U.N. armistice agreement) for border raids indicate the fiery Premier's thinking more clearly than Eban does...
...education I missed." says Rex. "Fortunately I didn't need one in the theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about...
...ingeniously found a way to solve the problem with only one unknown, x+5 (x+2) = 32. But the teacher did not congratulate him: she told him he was "wrong" and sent him back to his seat. To Mathematician David Page, 31, of the University of Illinois' College of Education, this was just one more example of why high-school math is in the plight it is. "Mathematics," says he, "is normally regarded by teachers as a subject with cut and dried rules of procedure. The theory is that the teacher simply passes on the rules, and the kids...
...will, as interpreted by Samuel, with the air of a man who gets his orders direct. Jealous of Saul and resentful of his own failing prophetic powers, Samuel sets about plotting the upstart king's undoing. Samuel's master stroke is to seek out David, the young poet whom Saul loves like a son. Though David protests his loyalty to Saul, Samuel whispers: "Saul has drawn down upon himself and his house the displeasure of the Lord ... It is upon you ... that the choice of the Lord has fallen...
...David's anointment is doubly ironic, for it serves wily Samuel's purpose as well as God's; rumors of Samuel's strategy persuade Saul that he has, in fact, been rejected by God. Too late the Witch of Endor warns the king: "Your first sin against God was doubt." Hounded by the sense that he has failed God's trust, Saul loses faith in himself and those around him. Suspicion of David (who becomes a national hero with the slaying of Goliath) gnaws at Saul's soul until he is obsessed with...