Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slur was enough to make every Cornhusker huff-if not puff. In a lengthy report on U.S. marijuana laws, the Wall Street Journal last week reported that the green-flowered cannabis weed from which "grass" is produced "flourishes in temperate climates; one botanist estimates that 17% of the field foliage in Nebraska is marijuana." Replied outraged Nebraska agronomists: "Utterly ridiculous . . . absolutely crazy . . . silly...
...ISRAEL JOURNAL JUNE, 1967 and DEATH HAD TWO SONS, by Yael Dayan. From the 28-year-old daughter of General Moshe Dayan comes an exhilarating chronicle of the Israeli victory over the Arabs and a tough-minded, unsentimental novel peopled by ghosts of the Hitler...
Died. Bernard Kilgore, 59, president of Dow Jones & Co. from 1945 to 1966; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. The Indiana-born newsman signed on at the Wall Street Journal in 1929, made his way to the top by 1941 and thereafter transformed the parochial financial paper into one of the nation's most influential newspapers, aimed, as Kilgore liked to say, "at everyone who is engaged in making a living or is interested in how other people make a living." As the Journal rose to 1,000,000 circulation (second only to the New York Daily News), Kilgore added...
...ISRAEL JOURNAL JUNE, 1967 and DEATH HAD TWO SONS by Yael Dayan. 113 and 191 pages. McGraw-Hill. $4.95 each...
Moisturizing Cream. The campaign journal is equally well done, if far more ebullient. Yaël was assigned as a combat correspondent to the armored division of celebrated General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon. She records how Sharon, outmanned and outtanked,swept out of the Negev, cracked the Egyptian main line of resistance at Um-Katef, and opened the route to the Suez Canal for Israeli armor. She has a sharp sense of color. At the village of Nahel: "The sandstorm receded, and silence took over. The horn of a burning vehicle was operating-a wan sound of alarm...