Word: levies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Birrenbach, Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol prodded Bonn for action on 1) extending the statute of limitation to permit the arrest and trial of Nazi murderers still at large, 2) forcing the return home of German scientists working on Egypt's rocket program, and 3) resuming the shipment of arms to Israel suspended last month because of Nasser's protests...
...graduated from the University of Texas law school in 1957, wound up working on Johnson's Senate staff until 1961. Since then he has dabbled in diplomatic protocol by helping Duke arrange the California state visits of Mexico's President López Mateos and Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. As for the polished Duke, Johnson promised an "important ambassadorial post" soon...
...leggy El Al stewardess belongs to it, and so does the professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, the orange picker in the kibbutz and the housewife in Haifa. Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and most of his Cabinet are card-carrying, dues-paying members. All are enrolled in an extraordinary organization called the Histadrut, Israel's huge and powerful 900,000-member labor federation...
Though their numbers have gradually declined with the spread of merger-seeking corporations, firms that have stuck to private ownerships have proved that they can compete with and outdo the Goliaths by concentrating on specialty products. San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle. It has just begun worldwide marketing of hot-selling "Sta-Prest" pants, which are treated with resin, then baked in 325° ovens until they have a permanent crease...
...Pressure, No Proxies. Like Levi Strauss, which is run by four heirs of its founder, most family-owned businesses stay that way simply because the owners want to be their own bosses. There are other advantages of family ownership, of course. The family firms have the asset of secrecy, a particular plus in the brutally competitive clothing or package-goods businesses, where products are often pirated. Relieved of shareholders' probing questions and pressures to declare dividends, family managers can reinvest all their profits or, for that matter, take a bad loss without having to worry about criticism. Says...