Word: levies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While it did very well in its most recent military endeavors, Israel needs economic help. Last week more than 450 leading financiers, manufacturers and economists from 29 countries jetted to Jerusalem for talks on building up Israel's private sector. When the four-day conference ended, Premier Levi Eshkol could declare without over statement that it had "surpassed our most optimistic expectations...
Through the Orange Groves. Israel's revenge came as no surprise. Four days before the invasion, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that the Arabs were preparing for a "new wave of terror," which Israel would take steps to contain if King Hussein of Jordan could not. Premier Levi Eshkol told the Knesset much the same thing, and Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah on the same day filed two complaints with the United Nations against the Arabs' "repeated acts of aggression." The stage was set for retaliation...
Diamond Studs. American designers were not to be outdone at the Esquire-sponsored show. Bill Blass demonstrated his fondness for the military look with a heavy, maxi-length overcoat. For evening, John Weitz, a onetime race-car driver, showed a Levi-styled dinner jacket worn over a collarless shirt with a red bandanna knotted around the throat. Francis Toscani, who designs Botany-brand suits for a Philadelphia clothing manufacturer, aimed for versatility: the pocket panels of his fitted lounging coat were attached by Velcro strips and could be removed to convert the coat into a short Eisenhower jacket, presumably enabling...
...Viet Nam like the lowliest peasant. His home was a palm-frond shack in Ba The, a tiny Mekong Delta village 25 miles from the nearest U.S. settlement. Carrying all his worldly possessions in a wheat sack, Gitelson traveled the back canals of the Delta in sandals and faded Levi's, entertaining peasants with his concertina and instructing them in the modern farming methods he had picked up as an honor student at the University of California at Davis. The peasants called him My Ngheo-the poor American...
LEMONADE JOE. The Czechs kid the Levi's off the American western in a spoof from the same bag as Cat Ballon...