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Next day in the wire-enclosed Central Elections Committee headquarters in Jaffa, guarded by a posse of police, the votes were counted. The result showed an un expected drift away from Ben-Gurion's moderate Mapai (Labor) Party, a defeat for the more conservative General Zionists, and a surprising tilt towards the extremists of both sides. Shock-haired Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Premier, who became a shepherd and now has returned to shep herd his people, had acted almost as if the premiership would be his by acclamation. Apparently, the present Premier, Moshe Sharett, also a member...
...were an ocean of ink. But the satellite, soaring above the atmosphere, can measure all kinds of radiation, including the sun's ultraviolet and the primary cosmic rays. Its electrical eyes, looking downward, can scan the earth, following masses of cloud as they form and drift. Other instruments can measure the electrified particles that stream...
Halos Askew. Against this backdrop, Brad and Val drift towards a hoked-up farewell. Brad volunteers for a suicide outfit with a D-day dawn mission, only to find that his last-minute C.O. is Val's other lover, John. As they make the beach yards apart, both men nearly buy it-but live to come out of it with a reluctant mutual respect. Back in England a few days later, with sacrificial halos slightly askew. Brad and Val call it quits: "She said, 'Turn your head away.' He knew she was leaving...
...furtively at a handsome man nearby. When she looks again, she meets his appraising eye and is as panicked as a mother hen who sees the circling shadow of a hawk. She flees. But every path seems to lead her back to the same man and with the slow drift of the days, her panic subsides, breaks out, subsides again and finally softens to surrender. Italy's Rossano Brazzi complements Kate's artistry every step of the way. As a married but amorous art dealer, he plays her lover with wit, affection and-when necessary-a matching anger...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, long in the habit of addressing himself boldly to posterity, celebrated his 86th birthday by spouting pronouncements on everything from the skyscraper ("Ought to go out into the country . . . cast its shadow on its own ground") to the drift toward equalitarianism ("Going to be the death of democracy"). Then, with boyish glee, he burbled: "As for me, if I felt any better I couldn't stand...