Word: meir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visited synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods to reassure residents of his concern for their problems. Lindsay's lean, 6 ft. 3 in. frame, topped by the inevitable yarmulke, became a familiar sight in the outlying boroughs. The grand reception given to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir led to the appellation "Meir" Lindsay...
Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser expressed "dismay" that "Arab bullets were directed to the wrong target, whatever the reason." Reportedly on instructions from Premier Golda Meir, Israeli officials said nothing. Only Deputy Premier Yigal Allon broke the silence to warn that Israel would not sit on its hands if the status quo were disturbed...
...poetry who, however, shows little poetry in his political style. West Germany has not had an inspirational leader since Adenauer, or Britain since Churchill; a contest between Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Tory Leader Ted Heath would involve a choice of Yorkshire pudding or boiled potatoes. Mrs. Golda Meir has more panache-at least for those who appreciate Jewish mothers -than her predecessor, Levi Eshkol, but she can hardly match that prophet-politician David Ben-Gurion. Revolution has unseated the egomaniacal Nkrumah of Ghana and Sukarno of Indonesia -no loss to the world, except in drama. Egypt...
After one day in Los Angeles, Mrs. Meir flew to Milwaukee to visit the Fourth Street School. When Goldie Mabovitch was eight years old, her family emigrated from Kiev, Russia, to Milwaukee. The three-story brick school, which she attended for six years, is physically almost unchanged. However, it is now in the center of the city's ghetto, and all the students are black...
...Premier was about to leave the auditorium, the children began to sing-in Hebrew-Shalom Chaverim (Peace, Friends). Obviously moved, Mrs. Meir ignored her security guards and plunged into the audience, shaking children's hands and hugging many of them. On the return flight to New York, Golda recalled Milwaukee not so much for her life there, but for what it led to. "That was the city," she said, "where I made the most important decision of my life." That decision was to move to Palestine in 1921. Since then, the establishment of a safe haven for Jewry...