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...miracle confined to the tiny Jewish homeland. "Israel," says Ben-Gurion, "has created a new image of the Jew in the world???the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. The state has straightened the backs of Jews in every country." In place of many of the old stereotypes of the Jew emerged a bronzed and bare-chested figure somewhat larger than life: the sabra (native-born Israeli), who took that name from the fruit of the cactus that thrives in his land, a handsome, romantic idealist who furrowed his fields...
Streams of Memos. Luce formally retired as Editor in Chief of Time Inc. in 1964. Nonetheless, he had neither the temperament nor the inclination to abandon his lifelong interest in the affairs of America, the world???and his magazines. On frequent trips around the U.S. and abroad, he eagerly quizzed TIME correspondents about the stories they were working on, made frequent speeches, questioned statesmen and cab drivers with equal pertinacity, meanwhile keeping up a steady flow of memos to his editors in New York?the last of which arrived a few hours after his death...
Nehru's Heart. Everything about the Kashmir problem is deeply emotional. The land itself produces little but scenery. Kashmir's mountain rim is so impenetrable that there is only one year-round road to the outside world???and it goes to Pakistan. Nehru was determined to keep Kashmir because it was his ancestral home and, as he put it, "a piece of my heart...
Immense projects are sprouting around the world???a city for 500,000 refugees outside Karachi; two complete mining towns at Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Piar, Venezuela; a new port area for Mombasa, Kenya; a French satellite city outside Toulouse to house 100,000 people?in which the planners are doing as much as the politicians and statesmen to determine how men will live tomorrow. And the planner who has the most to plan with is the man in the Bentley: William Leonard Pereira, 54, an architect from Chicago who is pinning more and more of the state of California...
Irvine Ranch is the biggest private development project in the world???93,000 acres of open land adjoining the southern edge of sprawling Los Angeles. Originally this vast tract was an amalgam of three Spanish land grants put together in the 1880s by a group of San Francisco investors, headed by Merchant James Irvine. Ever since, it has been kept intact, used, where it was used at all, mainly as agricultural land and citrus groves. In recent years, its disposal has been the subject of considerable squabbling among the heirs. They finally agreed to have it planned as a regional...