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Moshe Dayan, devout student of Von Clausewitz and of U.S. airborne operations, was perhaps even more justified than the British and French in his self-congratulation. "I am confident," said Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, "that military histories will make a thorough study of this remarkable operation...
...saxophone-tootling and other worldly pleasures for 15 days, Thailand's young (28) King Phumiphon Adundet this week wound up his term as a Buddhist monk (TIME, Sept. 24). In keeping with the royal tradition that a Thai king should spend some time as a priest (like any devout male commoner). Phumiphon, saffron-robed, barefoot and shaven-pated, had turned his kingdom into the hands of Queen Sirikit, 24, who acted as regent during the King's religious furlough...
...well have given up and accepted the advice of some of his friends to lie low. But, while he is a politician to his fingertips, Nixon is a man of consistent principle, whose values are as sound and fundamental as any in U.S. politics today. The son of a devout Quaker mother and a spirited Scots-Irish father who was a streetcar conductor and then a grocery-store operator, he grew up in the Depression and learned to take his problems head on. Always intense, serious and studious, he turned to government and politics as a boy, worked...
...made of something besides flour sacks. Trim (5 ft. 10½, 162 Ibs.) Wisconsin-born Wayne Morse was more sophisticated: his fondest memory of youth is lapping up liberal philosophy "at the feet of the great Robert La Follette Sr." McKay is, and will continue to be, a devout Republican. Morse is a Republican turned Independent turned Democrat. Pitched at each other in the fiercest of the 35 Senate races this year, 63-year-old Doug McKay-ex-Interior Secretary and Dwight Eisenhower's personal choice as a challenger-and Incumbent Wayne Morse, 56, are hurtling toward...
...fathers and sons," The Sacrifice takes its theme from the Bible, the talk of its old people from the folklore of Sholom Aleichem and the chat ter of its young from the Bronx locutions of Arthur Kober. Abraham is a patriarch in the classic mold-huge, fork-bearded, devout. When two of his sons are mur dered in a pogrom, he flees from the Ukraine to Canada. The tragedy briefly robs Abraham of his faith in God, turns his wife Sarah into a mindless zombie, and weighs down the frail shoulders of his remaining son, Isaac, with the necessity...