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...Arab-held Jerusalem to become the first Israeli soldier to reach the Wailing Wall during last year's Six-Day War with the Arabs. Clutching the Torah scroll and ram's horn that are the symbols of his religion, he also led his troops to the tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem and to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. He would have been the first Israeli to cross into Gaza had not an Arab tank shell blasted his command car out from under him. "Goren," says a Tel Aviv grocer who served under him, "is a gever...
...Zealand and architect of the free world's first comprehensive social security system; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A stocky socialist, Nash used his post as Minister of Finance in New Zealand's long-running (1935-49) Labor government to push through a womb-to-tomb measure that provided everything from butter to baby bonuses; he became Prime Minister in 1957, but taxed his utopians so heavily that they ousted him from office three years later...
...carting off whatever strikes their fancy. But who's to say no when the amateur happens to be Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 52, hero of all Israel and avid collector of artifacts for his private backyard museum. So there he was again last week, burrowing into an ancient tomb at Azor, near Tel Aviv, and this dig almost ended in tragedy. Dayan was six feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders dug him out within a minute, rushed him to a hospital, where he was found...
ARCHITECTURE HOme in a Barrel Vault New museums of late have tended to verge on the grandiose: the columned temple form of the Los Angeles County Museum, the mighty, circular Hirshhorn Museum planned for Washington, D.C., which rivals Hadrian's Tomb in scale. One museum in the process of being formed has decided on a different style. It is Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, due to open in 1971, and backed by an estimated $75 million left by the late Texas millionaire Kay Kimbell (groceries, oil, insurance). The architect: Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn...
Like a Pharaoh's tomb, the stage is stocked with the relics of a bygone life: a clutter of armoires and grandfather clocks, quaint archaic radios and phonographs, fringed lampshades and a golden harp. A man in a policeman's uniform slowly enters the attic room and sniffs the dust of decades. He walks over to the harp and plucks at a string. It is slack, jangled and flat-an omen of the theatrical evening to come...