Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sapio sees himself as Tammany's good-will ambassador ("He's to Tammany what Commander Whitehead is to Schweppes," says an admirer). He averages a dozen speeches a week (generally beginning, "I am very happy to be here tonight") before all sorts of groups, ranging from Israel Bond Drivers to the Harvard Law School Forum...
...scant 300 ft. from the Bulgarian border, Arkoudas and a handful of tough, mustached Greek soldiers saw an aircraft coming over the Ograzden mountain, which rises nearly 6,000 ft. on the Bulgarian side of the Strumica river valley. The plane, a plainly marked Lockheed Constellation of El Al Israel Airlines, was about ten miles away and approaching...
...Constellation was on the regular weekly flight from London to Israel via Paris, Vienna and Istanbul. Because Communist Bulgaria's borders are closed to all but Communist aircraft, the flight course normally follows a twelve-mile-wide corridor across Yugoslavia and takes a sharp dog leg around southwest Bulgaria, before flying across Greece to Turkey. The man who originally charted the course for El Al, Captain Stanley Hinks, 35, was at the controls. Among his passengers were twelve Americans, all New Yorkers on their way to visit friends and relatives in Israel. Captain Hinks's last message, radioed...
...Israel, politics, like the struggle for survival, can be bitter. Charges and countercharges by the 18 rival parties were almost as explosive as the bombs which blasted a candidate's home, a political rally and an election meeting. But Election Day last week was a ritual as solemn as any that democracy provides. People wore Sabbath clothes, and there was a Sabbath-like quiet in the air. Some 800,000 voters, half of whom cannot speak or write the language of the country with any fluency, entered the polling booth, carefully selected a slip bearing that...
...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 of Mapai, was all set to step aside for Ben-Gurion...