Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel struck oil last week, right on the fringe of the Negeb desert and only six miles from the Gaza strip. Rushing to the spot from Tel Aviv, Premier Designate David Ben-Gurion clambered down into a pit and dug to watch the first flow of the stuff. "Mazel Tov [Congratulations]," he murmured to the drillers. "When can we start to use the stuff?" Development Minister Dov Joseph hurried off by car to the Weizmann Institute of Science 25 miles away with a pop-bottleful to be assayed...
...African Lion (Disney; Buena Vista), the third of Walt Disney's full-length True-Life Adventures, does not sing a song of biology as stirringly as The Living Desert, but it is still one of the best movies ever made about Africa. With able use of the telephoto lens, along with plenty of patient scrounging around in the underbrush, Cameraman Alfred Milotte and his wife Elma have managed to sit the moviegoer a little nearer front and center than he has ever sat before at the greatest wild animal show on earth. The best bits...
...VOICE OF THE DESERT (223 pp.)-Joseph Wood Krutch-William Sloane Associates...
Americans have listened eagerly to the many-voiced cry of their continent. Seashore, mountains, valleys and plains have spoken and been heard. But the voice of the desert has been largely ignored. To the Hebrews it spoke of the one true God, to the Arabs of the stars and the science of astronomy. It is a stern, conservative voice, encouraging endurance rather than conquest. The desert shows man his limitations and turns him inward. When practical-minded men inquire, "But what is the desert good for?", perhaps the best answer still is: "Contemplation...
Merciless Creature. Joseph Wood Krutch would let even the mountain lions and the rattlesnakes keep their own skins. In The Voice of the Desert there is only one creature he mercilessly skins alive-man, the destroyer of nature and of the natural balance. "To almost everything except man," he writes, "the sight of man [is] the most terrifying of all sights...