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Last week, TIME asked three leading Israeli intellectuals who hold quite different views to reflect on the contrast, as they saw it, between the dream of Israel and the reality. Novelist Amos Oz, 39 (My Michael, The Hill of Evil Counsel), is a dove; a member of a kibbutz in the Jerusalem corridor, he served in a tank unit during Israel's last two wars. Shmuel Katz, 63, was a comrade of Menachem Begin in the underground Irgun movement; a Herut Party member of the Knesset and an Israeli superhawk, he resigned as the Premier's foreign information...
...Harvard linksters braved winds yesterday that were last seen in the Topeka twister that carried Dorothy off to Oz as they won The Greater Boston Golf Championship over a five-school field...
...free to get up and pace the corridors. Her husband Bruce was at her side during the critical moments of delivery. Almost immediately afterward, the doctor handed him the squealing infant, and the awed father was allowed to cut the umbilical cord and give his 7-lb. 8-oz. (3.4 kg) son his first bath. The baby was not taken away, but spent the night with his parents. "A beautiful experience!" Mickey exclaimed. "I would never have a baby any other...
...demonstrated last fall when California scientists inserted into the DNA of E. coli bacteria synthesized copies of a gene that orders the production of somatostatin, a vital brain hormone in mammals. Researchers who first isolated that hormone needed nearly half a million sheep brains to produce 5 mg (.00018 oz.) of the substance. But the California scientists used only about 8 liters (2 gal.) of a culture containing their re-engineered bacteria to obtain the same amount...
...price of gold, that classic refuge of investors who lack confidence in the dollar, soared nearly $4 per oz. in a single day, one of the largest jumps in postwar history. In London and Zurich, gold hit $190 per oz., just below the alltime high achieved in December 1974. At week's end, though, it sank back to around...