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...American Prophet...
Plumber & Prophet. The six-time Titleholders champ (1937, '38. '39, '48, '53, '55) worked hard to prove herself a prophet. She had started out "putting like a plumber," but on the second round she bore down, scored a fine 71 (one under men's par, four under women's par), hit the halfway mark tied for second with Wiffi Smith, 20, a broad-based, freckle-nosed newcomer to the pro ranks from St. Clair, Mich. Just one stroke in front, San Diego's Mickey Wright, 22, had a 36-hole total...
...battle over the Arab armies but facing all the uncertainties of a predictably difficult future. On Jan. 16, 1956 Ben-Gurion was on TIME'S cover again, back from a brief retirement to lead his nation at another moment of crisis, "a headlong man in a hurry," "a prophet who packs a pistol." This week, as David Ben-Gurion stood at the center of the diplomatic negotiations over the Middle East, he gave a TIME correspondent his own story of the troubled history of his people and their determined hopes for the years ahead. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Watchman...
...nine years since David Ben-Gurion founded the New Jerusalem by the force of a fanatical vision and the shrewdness of a gun-toting prophet, there have been times when much of the world has wondered just how big the tiny republic thinks it is. For one peaceful spell, Israel's unsleeping sentinel retired, full of years and honors, to Sde Boker, a pioneer desert settlement, to plough fields, search the writings of the philosophers for "universal truth" and ponder the mission of man-and of Israel. Then, white of mane but wearing the familiar khaki battle dress...
...think that he has done any better than a lot of other men." Her husband, she said, "is a blunt man. He speaks what he thinks." And with a noble and unswerving wifely loyalty that clearly marked Charlie Wilson as a true prophet in his own house, she added: "Most of the time what he thinks is true." Asked whether she wished that Charlie would resign from the Cabinet, Jessie Wilson said yes. "He has earned the right to take it easy now," she explained. Then she touched off a furor of her own: "A good many of the Cabinet...