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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl Berendsen pleaded for a "true truce of God" [in Palestine] during the U.N. inquiry. "Let all passions be stilled." (Next day, Jewish terrorists blew up the Crusaders' Castle in Acre, now a prison, and released 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners, including 80 terrorists. The dead in an hour's gun battle: 14 Jews, one Arab...
...Evans of the Hughes Aircraft Co. aims to accomplish only one thing: "terrain avoidance" (keeping the plane from hitting a hill). Many an airplane passenger, fidgeting in the overcast and wondering where the nearest "terrain" is lurking, will feel that this new gadget is worth the 15 Ibs. of dead weight and $400 installed cost...
...York Times erroneously reported him dead two years...
Coming back to school one afternoon, a young Manhattan teacher named Frank Hackett nearly stumbled over a teenager, dead drunk in the doorway. Then & there Hackett determined to start a school of his own out in the country-far enough from the city's temptations, and near enough to what he considered its treasures. Last week, as his Riverdale Country School turned 40, 69-year-old Headmaster Hackett was busy raising $5.000,000 for a new "world school" right next door...
Next day, dressed in slacks and sports coat after a swim in the Dead Sea, Bernstein told newsmen exuberantly: "The Palestine Orchestra is potentially one of the greatest in the world. It should make a trip to the States next fall, but first it needs two solid months of real hard work under a single conductor." He gazed dreamily out of the window of Jerusalem's modernistic Eden Hotel and mused, "I hope I can be the guy to pull that...