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Even in a country that is forced to dream Zarchin had trouble peddling his plan. After arriving in Palestine in 1947, the pale little man patiently trotted from ministry to ministry, haunting anterooms and grabbing coat sleeves. Desperately he fired off letters to Premier Ben-Gurion that were answered by an evasive secretary. "No one knew me," recalls Zarchin He was referred to as a "nudnik" (pedantic fusspot). "There were lots of cranks in Israel, and everyone thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salt Water Into Fresh | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

When Zarchin finally got through to Ben-Gurion, he found an eager supporter. After Israeli engineers had sniffed at his scheme, Zarchin herded them to a nearby ice factory, froze and melted some sea water, and passed it around. The engineers took one sip, then let loose a delighted whoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salt Water Into Fresh | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Dangerous Import. When the rabbis refused to give way, Premier Ben-Gurion stepped in, told Jerusalem's Mayor Gershon Agron to see that Glueck's plans were approved immediately. Last week the Orthodox bowed to the inevitable, granted Glueck his building permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reform for Israel? | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...Israel for what he insisted was a "personal visit." Since the Secretary-General had made a tour of the Middle East less than three months ago, and was not expected to return again until October, something was obviously up. For eight hours he talked with testy Premier David Ben-Gurion. Hammarskjold wanted reassurances that B-G was not about to break the peace. The U.N. mediator had been concerned by B-G's recent threat to U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Burns to do something drastic if Jordan misbehaved. B-G had shaken a Bible under Burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Weights & Measures | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Hammarskjold apparently was reassured: his talk with Ben-Gurion, they both said, had been "full and fruitful." Then he moved on to Jordan and Egypt to see if by any chance the Arabs might also be in a fruitful mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Weights & Measures | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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