Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia's Democratic bigwigs turned up with greetings from rebel Governor William M. Tuck. All grace, Dewey replied: "Please give my best regards to Governor Tuck who is a Republican at heart." Then he renewed his courtship of the state's G.O.P. delegation. Harold Stassen blew into town a few hours later on the same errand; Dewey lit out for North Carolina without crossing his path...
Accompanied by his wife and pretty 17-year-old daughter Dorothy, the governor moved unostentatiously around the town. Then he took off for the Governors' Conference, where he firmly refused to discuss his chances with reporters. A non-partisan conference, said Candidate Warren, seemed to him scarcely the place to talk partisan politics...
Unreal Morning. That night in Jerusalem was the noisiest since Partition Day. Arab Legion artillery and mortar shells crashed into the Jewish quarters of the new town, kicked up clouds of white smoke and dust. Red tracers streaked across the domed roofs of the Old City. At dawn the Jews sent one last burst into the Arab positions. A shell exploded on the balcony of an Arab hospital, killing an attendant. As he was carried out of the ward, head hanging limply, a nurse whimpered: "He is dead. Did you see him die? He would have lived if the truce...
Last week, as commander of Israeli forces trying to open the road to Jerusalem, Marcus was in the hills west of the town. There, a few minutes before the U.N. truce went into effect, an Arab bullet killed him. His body was brought back to Tel Aviv by jeep, to be sent to West Point for burial. Said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "His name will live forever in the annals of the Jewish people...
Angry Wind. At the little frontier town of Oudjda, on the edge of the eastern Moroccan desert, anti-Jewish rumors had been sweeping through the bazaars as angrily as wind-whipped sand from the desert. Young Jews, whispered the Moslems, were slipping across the frontier at night to Israeli recruiting bureaus. Another rumor: a Jewish football club from Casablanca was collecting money in Oudjda for Israel's army. Jews spread counter-alarms about the Arabs, and tension rose...