Word: levying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops fired on Israeli border positions five times last week. During one skirmish at the mouth of the Suez Canal, the irritated Israelis finally wheeled up tanks and mortars and bombarded the Egyptian resort town of Port Tewfic, killing 44 and wounding 170 others. Two days later, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol flew to the Suez battlefront and told his troops that "we must be on our guard and hold the positions and frontiers that our forces have reached." Said Eshkol bluntly, "There is no better border than this canal...
...past three weeks, she has toiled for as long as 16 hours a day, seven days a week, on Daphne in Cottage D, a Broadway script by a never-produced playwright, Stephen Levi, 26, and she has been waiting for two years to do it. To bring it in, Sandy's own business manager has had to raise half the backing, most of it her money. The director, stage manager and co-star are all colleagues from former productions, and Sandy is more in charge (though less egocentric) than in any production since her third-grade Cinderella...
MIDDLE EAST PERSPECTIVE: "CAN PEACE BREAK OUT?" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Interviews with Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol and top Arab leaders. Mike Wallace is the anchor man, backed up by Winston Burdett in Israel, Richard C. Hottelet from the U.N., and Marvin Kalb, Bob Evans and Bill McLaughlin in Jordan...
...least six new U.S. playwrights v. last year's one (Woody Allen). Edward Albee's own company, Theater 1968, is producing 39-year-old Actress Mary Mercier's Johnny No-Trump, the growth pains of a New York teenager. Another actor turned author, Stephen Levi, 26, will make his debut with Daphne in Cot tage D, starring William Daniels and Sandy Dennis as the widow of a famous movie star. Other hopefuls of the coming season...
Sultry Susan Sontag, 34, is a lady literary light who turned on four years ago with a flood of essays-on Levi-Strauss and Camus, on blue movies and happenings. They showed a clear, candid mind, especially quick at spotting new trends. Her 1964 essay, "Notes on 'Camp,' " is a minor classic, a sharp, entertaining catalogue that did much to popularize-and overpopularize-the Ins and Outs of the camp phenomenon. Her one novel in those days was The Benefactor (TIME, Sept. 13, 1963), an opaque tale about a dandified dreamer who cannot figure out whether he killed...