Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transitional leader, overseeing the changing of the guard from the dogmatic Zionist pioneers to the pragmatic new heirs of an established state. Always the patient man of compromise, he provided an elastic framework of government wherein Israelis' divergent political passions could coexist. "Put three Zionists in a room," Eshkol used to say, "and they will form four political parties." Israel has no fewer than 13 parties, and it is a measure of Eshkol's talent as a moderator that eight of them, representing 93% of the electorate, were in his coalition government...
...favorite wife, Queen Um Shagran, he settled into a remarkably sedate routine. A Moslem teetotaler and nonsmoker for many years, he made a point of rising early, spending some time at prayer and then eating a frugal breakfast of milk, toast and honey. Next came audiences in the throne room that he had had constructed in the hotel, followed by a minuscule lunch, a nap, and a relaxing hour or two with his daughters and their children. Dinner usually consisted of a glass of milk, and bedtime was before 11 p.m. In the past year, Saud kept two full-time...
...Even though as many as 15,000 of these operations this year may be performed in private hospitals and nursing homes, the rest are imposing a heavy burden on NHS gynecologists. They find themselves spending half their office hours passing judgment on patients seeking abortions and half their operating-room time performing them. This, say some gynecologists, is not the type of practice that they chose or for which they were trained...
...Moog's great distinctions are its size, price-$6,850 for a professional model-and vastly improved flexibility over earlier synthesizers (the first one, built by RCA in 1955, was a room-size monster that cost approximately $100,000). Because its voltage controls can precisely "shape" tones as they are being produced, the Moog affords more spontaneous variations of sounds than other comparable synthesizers, and far more subtlety and musicality...
...Government-sponsored Walker Report on the violence in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention repeated the obscenities shouted at Chicago police. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, decided at first to run the report without deleting the offensive words. "But when the story came up from the composing room and we saw all those words in cold print for the first time, we chickened out," he says. "It's one thing to hear it in conversation, another to see it in the paper. We used dashes...