Word: levies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scandal." By last week the uproar had boiled into a potential threat to Premier Levi Eshkol's coalition government. As the result of an Orthodox campaign abroad, Eshkol has been inundated with protests from Jews in 21 countries. At home, police guarded the domiciles of some pathologists who had received threats, and scores of sick were refusing to enter hospitals for fear of dissection if they died...
...retain their distaste for the war. "We're nothing more than sugar-coating for the genocide that's going on here," argues David Gitelson, 25, a U.C.L.A. graduate and ex-G.I. now stationed in the Delta. A lanky loner who lopes around in sandals and faded Levi's, Gitelson carries his worldly possessions with him in a wheat sack, is known to the Vietnamese as "my ngheo"-the poor American. U.S. officials consider him the most effective American of all the thousands involved in Delta pacification. Says one: "All he has is strength, stamina and awkwardness...
Another in the same mold is Jay Worrall, 23, a Virginia-born physics grad from Earlham College who marched on London's Trafalgar Square with Folk Singer Joan Baez in a 1965 antiwar demonstration. Last week Worrall, in striped shirt and sweat-stained Levi's, was humming a different tune as he sweated in the dust of Phu Cuong, twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half...
...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...
...Education" and was supplemented in February of 1966 with a further week free of classes devoted to assessing undergraduate programs. Students have institutionalized several daily coffee and tea hours which faculty and undergraduates attend in equal numbers. After his appointment as Provost in the spring of 1964, Edward H. Levi invited several groups of thirty to forty fourth-year students and faculty members to his house to discuss problems and plans for the educational system...