Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joke about her. "Under Eshkol," says an Arab professor, "I had a vague hope that something was possible. Under Mrs. Meir, I have no such hope." A Jordanian Cabinet member agrees: "Eshkol hated the hawks, but Golda flies in formation with them. She has always been hard as nails." Part of the time, she has had to be. Nine days before she was sworn in, the Egyptians, having turned the Suez front opposite Sinai into one vast, armed camp, loosed a thunderous artillery barrage. What Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser described as "the war of attrition" went into high gear...
...against the Jews. Everyone more or so less expects the Arabs to be "fanatics," so that any real or apparent concession is welcomed with wonder and relief; but the Jews are expected to be more reasonable, so that any intransigence on their part is regarded with special impatience. Moreover, Israel is a Western, industrial power and its precise and powerful strikes against guerrilla forces?no matter how much modern equipment the Arab nations have received from Russia?somehow make the struggle seem unequal...
...General Assembly, are scheduled to meet to discuss the Middle East. Even if Washington and Moscow were to devise a peace formula, Israel steadfastly refuses to recognize any settlements arranged by outside parties. "Tell Washington that we will never go along with this," Mrs. Meir says. For its part, Israel would like Washington to pressure Moscow to talk the Arabs into meeting Israel across a table. But the Arabs refuse until their territories are returned?and would probably still refuse even if Israel were to comply...
...libel suits, are an embarrassed public official's reflex response to exposure. Yet few suits ever reach the trial stage, particularly in the light of recent Supreme Court decisions involving libel of public figures. To win, Alioto must prove malicious intent or utter carelessness in checking on the part of Look, Carlson and Brisson. Butts won his case because the Post made virtually no effort to check the story. Look, however, released a statement saying that many man-hours were spent checking and re-checking the piece. While some foresaw Alioto's political doom, others predicted his victory...
Whether a whole chromosome or a single gene or a group of genes is responsible, genetic defects can affect every part of the human body and the mind. Dr. Victor McKusick of Johns Hopkins, the world's leading expert on dwarfism, supplied a forbidding list: abnormalities of the skeleton, of the innumerable enzyme systems, of the nervous system, of blood cells, both red and white, of clotting mechanisms, of the hormone systems, of the kidneys, of the intestinal tract, and of the muscles. The eyes and ears are also susceptible-there are about 40 varieties of hereditary deafness, said...