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...mountainous Nepal, the word "muhammad" means great and strong. It seems a fine name to give a faithful dog. To the touchy Moslem minority in the state of Uttar Pradesh near New Delhi, however, the same syllables, no matter what their spelling, mean only one thing: Mohammed, the Prophet. One day last month a Nepalese traveler named Maganlal Shah came to Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and lost his dog, a dog so beloved that he led it with a silver chain. Maganlal advertised in the Lucknow Pioneer: "Lost, from the Hindustan Hotel, one fox breed dog, brown color, long hair...
...decision owed much to the powerful will of David Ben-Gurion, who, at 69, looks like an Old Testament patriarch with white hair foaming up from each side of his thrusting head. A Zionist and Socialist visionary, a prophet who packs a pistol, Ben-Gurion led the republic for its first six years until, frustrated by party niggling in his coalition, he retired to live in the pioneer settlement of Sde Boker on the southern desert. Eleven months ago he dramatically returned to politics on the eve of elections, hoping to win decisive control of Parliament but achieving only...
...world," says Ben-Gurion, "is not yet accustomed to the revival of a sovereign Jewish state after 2,000 years of its suppression. Even the Jews are not yet convincingly accustomed to it." The key to his vehemence today is that this visionary leader, as fiercely perfectionist as any prophet of old, has come back from the wilderness north of Sinai in the stark conviction that his people have not yet gained the Promised Land, and can never finally win it until they have overcome the enemy without and the enemy within. He is genuinely worried about the durability...
...court* suspended him from service for five years, with loss of rank and privilege, and he resigned. (He died in 1936 at the age of 56.) The air force had lost a leader but found a prophet and a martyr, and in the next two decades Billy Mitchell was a major article of faith in the new cult of air power that justified its doctrines in World...
Since relinquishing the Georgia governor's chair, Herman Talmadge has had little to do but snarl defiantly at the Supreme Court. As the self-appointed prophet of the Jim Crow forces, he has burned at white heat ever since what he terms the "calamitous action" of the Supreme Court in May 1954. Mr. Talmadge has now taken it upon himself to write a bible for his disciples. In a small volume, You and Segregation, the fiery demagogue describes the deadly sins--i.e., the Supreme Court, the NAACP, and bloc voting...