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...Manhattan, it was announced that Dr. Selman A. Waksman, winner of the 1952 Nobel prize for medicine, had established a fellowship in microbiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Reho-voth, Israel in memory of the late President Chaim Weizmann...
...Motol was never too far off. Though Chaim Weizmann was fluent in seven languages, it was in Yiddish that he felt most at home. His humor too was peculiarly Yiddish; his stories the wry, comic-sad little folk tales that Jews tell to illustrate their precarious position in an oftentimes hostile world...
...government which he, more than any other, had made possible. Israelis tell the story that at one of his rare public appearances last year, at an army parade, he dropped, a, handkerchief. An aide picked it up. "Thank you, thank you very much, thank you very much indeed," said Weizmann. The puzzled aide pointed out that after all it was only a handkerchief. "You don't understand," replied Weizmann. "My handkerchief is terribly important to me. It's the only thing in the country I can stick my nose into. Into everything else, it's Ben-Gurion...
Shortly before he died, Weizmann was sitting on a terrace, enjoying the view. He called one of his bodyguards. "My eyes are bad," he said, pointing, "but is that a sentry walking with a police dog?" "Yes, sir," the army man replied. "But that's impossible," said Weizmann. "In my youth in Russia, they used police dogs to track Jews down. Could it be that the Jews have changed?" He mused a while, then answered himself sardonically: "No, it must be that the police dogs have changed...
Died. Chaim Weizmann, 77, Russian-born son of a village timber merchant who became a world-famous chemist, leader of world Zionism and first President of modern Israel; in Rehovoth, Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS...