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Order for Affair. In October, a judicial commission investigating the tortuous Lavon affair heard a senior official admit he had arranged the forging of a letter that said Lavon gave his approval to the "disastrous" operation. The decision last week was passed on to the Cabinet. Ben-Gurion angrily insisted that Lavon, who admittedly helped plan the affair even if he did not order it into operation, should not be allowed to get off scot free and leave patriotic army officers holding...
...Seat-belted bodies were flung everywhere. An Army squad arrived in trucks, played extinguishers on burning bodies, crawled into the wreckage, and with knives cut seat belts and pulled out a few passengers. Within moments, the snow-covered field was soaked with crimson, and soon, as in Brooklyn, the tortuous, dirgelike procession of stretcher-borne victims began...
Last week's verdict presumably marked the end of a long and tortuous trail for Hulan Jack. A teen-aged immigrant from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, he began his career at the end of a mop handle, as janitor for the Peerless Paper
...Esthetic Factor. As U.S. voters have been known to do, many Europeans reached their choice by tortuous paths. Some Italian anticlericals favored Roman Catholic Kennedy because he would "tell off Cardinal Spellman and set an example to our own Christian Democrats." France's tabloid Paris-Jour, after rhapsodizing over Jackie Kennedy's French ancestry and artistic leanings, declared with evident approval that she "wishes to admit to the White House the Latin Quarter, the quays of the Seine and Montparnasse." The Quai d'Orsay remembered Kennedy's explosive 1957 speech calling for independence for Algeria...
During the long, tortuous nuclear-test-ban wrangle between the U.S. and Russia, it often seemed that neither side really expected a test ban, that the wall of suspicion between the two nations was unbreachable. But two weeks ago, the world caught a glint of something that hinted at Russian willingness to negotiate. At the U.S.-British-Soviet test-ban conference in Geneva, Russian Delegate Semyon...