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...Just why he has chosen to make the effort is a subject of some controversy in Israel. In 1963 he "retired" to Sde Boker and handed the Premiership and leadership in the dominant Mapai party over to Finance Minister Eshkol. Then, last year he demanded that Eshkol reopen the somno lent "Lavon Affair," which had begun in 1955, when Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon was fired for his supposed responsibility in an abortive anti-Egyptian sabotage plot-and ended, as far as Eshkol was concerned, when an official inquiry in 1961 cleared Lavon...
Other possibilities of this somno-education, this sponge method of culture, present themselves in infinite variety. The Widow's establishment may become a dormitory, with a corps of specially trained mental nurses; extra cots must be provided for transients on nights before quizzes; and, for safety's sake, separate wards will be needed for different subjects. College life will again become a less strenuous occupation: the word "school" will again mean leisure. But heaven help the insomniac...
Reading from Lucian will constitute the program at a meeting of the Harvard Classical Club to be held to night at 8 o'clock in the Club Room of the Union. The two principal selections which will be real are "De Somno", and the distance between Charon and obtain abie at the meeting...
...Harvardinus, cum amici fessum et somno gravem in lectulum posuissent, et luminibus remotis abiissent, se e stragulis repente projiciens, impositis altera in capite altera in ventri manibus, dolorose exclamat...
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