Word: sundown
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Just before sundown every Friday, a bearded Jew with a ram's horn blats a warning through the crowded, ghettolike section of Jerusalem known as Mea She'arim. The Sabbath approaches. Until sundown Saturday, no one may work, smoke, cook a meal, answer a telephone, or carry money on his person. Yellow signs outside the quarter warn that on the Sabbath only emergency vehicles, such as fire trucks and ambulances, will be allowed on its narrow, cobbled streets. Generally, not a car is moving and quiet reigns...
...would surely have been easier to give the director a flashlight and urge him to stay on the job after sundown; the mechanical eye that sees so well in the dark is far too expensive a gadget to be used for casual beaver watching. But the demonstration was impressive proof that the device invented by Dutch Physicist Albert Bouwers is astonishingly sensitive. Its practical applications seem limited only by the imagination of its users...
...Mennen Williams, 52, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was on his way out when up dashed an enthusiastic gentleman. Soapy got the hand, but the beard got him-in a bristly, both-cheeks embrace. The Algerians were all for Williams because he observed the sunrise-to-sundown Moslem fast of Ramadan-plus the fact that their government had decided to headline the U.S. emergency aid (40,000 tons of foodstuffs monthly) that helps nourish the country. Glowed Soapy, when he recovered his tongue: "I shall tell President Kennedy of the gratitude of the Algerian people...
Home & Headquarters. The insurrection began on Friday, holiest day of the Moslem week, and in the midst of Ramadan, the month when good Moslems fast every day from sunup to sundown and tempers are everywhere short. Army trucks and tanks were already rumbling through the streets when at 9:30 a.m., a strident new voice on Radio Baghdad began exulting, "This is the voice of the Iraqi revolution!" Accusing "Kassem the dictator" of having "murdered citizens, weakened the army, imprisoned and executed scores of officers," the broadcaster claimed that the rebels "have destroyed the tyrant...
...assembled Kikuyu tribesmen to close his eyes, then led him through the crowd with a broom handle. "He is like a blind man because he has shut his eyes," shouted Mahihu. "If you have taken an oath with the Land Freedom Army, you have shut your eyes too!" By sundown, 130 men and women had stepped forward to renounce their membership in the shadowy army. Suspected members who held back faced arrest and imprisonment...