Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as he learned of the story, Israeli Minister of Justice Jacob Shapiro ordered all copies of Bui confiscated and the two editors thrown in jail-nominally for espionage, but actually because Premier Levi Eshkol feared mention of any link between Arab Morocco and Israel. Eshkol had privately told a group of editors, not including Bui's, that Israel had helped organize the Moroccan secret service in return for fair treatment of Moroccan Jews. Later, Eshkol said, the Moroccans had asked Israel to help kidnap Ben Barka, but Israel had refused to commit itself. Even so, if word...
...favors open housing, job-training programs, seating Red China in the U.N.?all of which puts him out of step with Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. More often than not, he will be voting with the Republican liberals, notably California's Tom Kuchel, New York's Jacob Javits, New Jersey's Clifford Case and his fellow freshmen Hatfield and Percy...
...weeks now, former White House braintrusters of such varied stripe as Walter Heller and Paul Samuelson, editorialists as far apart as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and Senators of such diverse views as New York Republican Jacob Javits and Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington have been sniping at everything from the government's fiscal blunders and the often broken wage-price guidelines to the faulty forecasting of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Finally, when Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called 1966 "the year of the big goof," charging that the Administration had underestimated Viet...
...Sheen has already visited one-fourth of the 170 churches in his jurisdiction, delivered 60 talks to civic and religious groups-including a sermon at a synagogue that drew one of the largest audiences in its history. "I spoke to them of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," Sheen said. "Abraham was a great man, Isaac was a mediocre man and Jacob was a deceiver. But God loved them all-so there is hope...
...knight Hudibras visits an astrologer named Sidrophel to seek advice on how to win the hand of a wealthy widow (see opposite page). It is clearly a case of one fraud patronizing another, and when Hudibras sees the astrologer's ludicrous array of tools-a stuffed crocodile, a Jacob's staff-he feels duped, and the two men quarrel. In another picture, a bloated effigy of Hudibras is ridden to a fiery stake by people who are finally fed up with Protestant reformers...