Premier David Ben Gurion marked today his 72nd birthday in the usual quiet and privacy of a holiday retreat.
Observers have been impressed with the Premier’s brisk manner and gait, his good health and his failure to wince either fatigue with his man-killing responsibilities or to lay aside his work. Intimates report that he continues his regular strenuous physical exercises, including some which require him to stand on his head.
(The Times of London, in a Jerusalem dispatch, termed Mr. Ben Gurion as fit today “to hold the reins of office as he has ever been in spite of all the difficulties he has had to face since 1906 when he first emigrated to Palestine from Eastern Europe.” The Times added that “his enthusiasm and vigor remained undimmed.”)
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