Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Eliahu Hath sailed on the Queen Mary yesterday on route to Israel where he expects to remain about six weeks. Meyer Weisgal, executive director of the American Friends of the Weizmann Institute of Science, also sailed yesterday for Israel to take up his new duties as |chairman of the executive council of the Institute.
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