Word: levying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weary of politics to hand-pick his successor: Ukrainian-born Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, 67, who has brought Israel from a hand-to-mouth economy to the point where its gross national product has risen an average of 11% annually over the past five years, and its dollar surplus is almost an embarrassment. Twice married but now a widower, Eshkol has four daughters, one of whom teaches dancing in Jerusalem, while another is a sergeant in the Israeli army. His new Cabinet strongly resembles Ben-Gurion's old one, and it is unlikely there will be any radical changes...
...spur "the kind of thinking that wins Nobel Prizes," as Provost Levi puts it, Beadle set up a faculty-raiding "independence fund" that now stands at $3,500,000. While easing out many mediocre men, Beadle in 18 months has increased the faculty from 800 to 930. This year Chief Headhunter Levi has a rich catch, from Yale Historian Leonard Krieger to Michigan Law Professor Frank Allen and Negro Historian John Hope Franklin of Brooklyn College. Vows Levi grimly: "We are going to take the best men we can find, although we will probably raise faculty salaries across the country...
...Laskey, who had large holdings in Bonds of Israel and was equally tired of parlor meetings. Impressed, Laskey bypassed Jewish-controlled investment houses to avoid any further tinge of sentiment, persuaded Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis to underwrite the plan. Visiting Israel, he also persuaded Finance Minister Levi Eshkol and the socialist Labor government to make concessions to the fund, including below-market-value sale of government-held stocks and an option eventually to purchase $50 million in such securities...
...difficult to correct. Well-meaning Mayor Kennelley had announced plans for a 900-acre renewal program, but was never able to translate those plans into substantive action. It remained for Daley, using every instrument of his political power, to make the project really move. He teamed up with Julian Levi, the university's own slum-clearance leader, adopted and reinforced Levi's organized community assaults on greedy landlords and local crime. Today, the area's deterioration has been stemmed with the construction of nearly 2,000 housing units, as well as shopping facilities and new university additions...
...comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball, called and slopped hogs, milked cows, and walked through fields eating...