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...legacy also involves the onerous duty of governing 1,300,000 more Arabs who inhabit conquered territories that are together three times the size of Israel itself. The burden of the occupation has compounded older problems. Many younger politicians are losing patience with the pioneer generation of leaders typified by Eshkol. Men like Dayan's aide, Knesset Member Simon Peres, describe them as "a self-perpetuating oligarchy with a powerful sense of self-pity." Despite its recovery, the economy has serious weaknesses, among them its dependence upon the generosity of Jews abroad and its large trade deficit. Defense expenditures...
Died. Harold Babcock, 86, pioneer astronomer credited with discovering periodic reversals in the sun's magnetic field; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Babcock was in semiretirement in 1958 when he noticed the reversals, theorized they would occur every eleven years and would change the shape of sunspots, dark areas on the solar surface that cause magnetic storms...
...American kind of hero--a pioneer. His Montgomery bus boycott gave birth to black Civil Rights activism. And his quintessential moment was a 1963 speech about a dream...
...whisky punch," long a part of curling tradition as "the usual drink in order to encourage the growth of barley." The game was carried to Canada in the mid-1700s by Scottish soldiers who melted cannon balls into 60-lb. "irons" for a frolic on the frozen St. Lawrence. Pioneer farmers ringed hard wood blocks with iron or used lard buckets filled with cement...
After more than three decades of seat-of-the-pants competition, two of Alaska's pioneer bush airlines have joined forces and moved toward the jet age. Wien Alaska and Northern Consolidated Airlines, with total revenues of $12 million, this month merged their 8,500-mile routes, named the company Wien Alaska Airlines, and went public...