Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, is "the acceptance of Israel's statehood." They are likely to demand the right of passage through Suez and to insist on keeping some of the real estate that they picked up during their four-day blitz-most notably Old Jerusalem, the highlands west of the River Jordan running from Jenin through Bethlehem to Hebron, and Sharm el Sheikh, which controls access to the Gulf of Aqaba...
...raid siren, as Radio Kol Israel interrupted its regular broadcast to announce that heavy fighting had begun against "Egyptian armored and aerial forces which moved against Israel." Lively Jewish folk tunes, rousing Israeli pioneer songs and stirring military marches, including the theme song from The Bridge on the River Kwai, filled the air waves until Defense Minister Dayan came on. His message, like the man, was economical and blunt, concluding with: "Soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, on this day our hopes and security are with...
Curious Footnote. One by one, other Biblical towns fell to the advancing Israelis?Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem?until they had seized all of Hussein's kingdom west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Unlike their Egyptian brethren in Sinai, King Hussein's legionnaires fought stubbornly and with discipline. But as in Sinai, the Israelis' absolute mastery of the air meant ultimate Arab defeat. All day the jets wheeled into steep dives to drop bombs and napalm canisters on stubborn pockets of Jordanian resistance. Unaware of the extent of Egypt's air losses, Hussein could not believe that the Israeli...
...that what happened at those other Ivy colleges might happen here. At Princeton the dean, informed by the authorities to clean his own house or they would do it for him, called the known drug users there to his office and told them to "throw the stuff in the river" or there would be trouble. Some did, but seven were arrested, and the New York Daily News had a field...
...Bernadino, Calif. (Philosophy); Ronald E. Davis of Bloomfield, N.Y. (Applied Math); Gilbert S. Doctorow of Spring Valley, N.Y. (History); David M. Engel of Ann Arbor, Mich. (History and Literature); Stephen A. Hart of New York (Social Relations); Daniel R. Issacson of Oakland, Calif. (Mathematics); John P. Oleson of Deare River, N.Y. (Clissics); John M. Pesando of Andover (Biochemistry); Charles A. Pine of Phoeniz, Ariz. (Matrematics); A.B. Schmookler of New Brighton, Minn. (Social Relations); Jeffrey P. Swope of Ann Arbor, Mich. (Government) and Steven Varga-Golovcsenko of Huntington Station, N.Y. (History...