Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrated Lavon affair itself was still under tight wraps. Outsiders could only surmise that it concerned an ill-fated Israeli espionage ring smashed in Cairo in 1954. Lavon, who was Defense Minister at the time, resigned for his role in the affair. But he was able to prove to a meeting of the Israeli Cabinet six weeks ago that forged papers had been used as part of the evidence that had forced him out of office. Though Ben-Gurion stormed from the room, the Cabinet cleared Lavon of any responsibility for the 1954 fiasco...
...waters off Jewell Island, Me. came a possible clue to the mystery disappearance of France's late Captain Charles Nungesser, who vanished somewhere over the Atlantic 34 years ago. Lodged in the pot was a fragment of an instrument panel, which may have come from Nungesser's ill-fated biplane, L'Oiseau Blanc. On May 8, 1927, the dashing Nungesser and his navigator, François Coli, took off from Paris, aiming at the $25,000 Orteig Prize, which awaited the first man to fly nonstop between Paris and New York-and which was won by Charles...
...base paper, or in the 140-odd other U.S. papers that take his column. On Nov. 17, in Winchell's space, the Mirror carried the byline of Winchell's customary summer replacement, slight, snappish Lee ("New York Confidential") Mortimer. With the shift went an explanation : "WW is ill with a staph infection. He will resume his column when he feels better. Meanwhile, Lee Mortimer's column will appear in this space." But as the weeks wore on, even this vague promise vanished, leaving readers to wonder whether Winchell was ever coming back...
...also the founder of Methodism's schools. In 1748, shocked at the fact that only one Englishman in 50 could read and convinced that "every voluntary blockhead is a knave," he set up a school for English miners' children. In his grimly Methodical way, Wesley roused his ill-fed pupils at 4 a.m., forbade recesses, ignored weekends, decreed a harsh round of Greek, Hebrew, philosophy and math, interrupted only by prayers. Said he: "Those who play when they are young will play when they are old." Wesley's passion for education infected his U.S. disciples when they...
...Bohan broke into haute couture in 1945 as an assistant designer at Patou, left Patou in 1958 to work under Dior's Boy Wonder Chief Designer Yves St. Laurent. When St. Laurent, after an unhappy stint in the French army, "retired" from Dior two months ago because of "ill health," Bohan, one of the few married male couturiers in Paris, took over. Few in Paris expected much from his debut, and St. Laurent fans were openly hostile. Admitted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "I had a poisoned typewriter ribbon ready...