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JERUSALEM: We remembered from a previous visit the government chauffeur who drove us around the countryside while the guide pointed out things of interest. The driver didn't cpe;,a his mouth for the first two days, so we just assumed he didn't '3peai< English.
Speak English? He'd been a captain in the British army!
"Why shouldn't I keep quiet, and pay attention to the road, which needs attention," he said, when we finally opened him up. "This isn't like pushing a late-model Cadillac along your North American turnpikes, you know. And in town the pedestrians just keep their heads down and cross the street anywhere, trusting God
to take care of the traffic. I I'm just as good as anybody
call it the Red Sea habitP ^>]se."
"Besides, I get paid to drive Israels    basically SociaUst
and Joe gets paid to talk, so ihinking has resulted in less
let him do the talking.    Any (if a wage differential than that
where else in the world,   Ifl of most countries, but we got
be bucking to be a guide, but the other side of the picture
here I'm just as happy being ;i from a man high in the Civil
driver. The pay is almost   a'i Service, good — or as bad—depending
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Ever catch a calipoeva or a one ever taken in Jamaica snook or a drummer   or   a weighed in at 406 pounds. The
on how you look at it. And at night I put on a clean shirt
and 1 take my wife to a con cert and, chauffeur or lawjer,
"I'm supposed to be holding ilown an important job," he told us, -yet I've got a tiny three-room apartment for my uifc and two children. The baby's crib is in the bedroom with us, the older one sleep.s on a cot in the living room, bo
$333 first class, from Toronto $237 tourist class and $313.50 first class, and from Winnipeg $313 tourist class and $409 "aturally we can't do any en-first class. tcrtaining. Bigger apartments A week's stay in Jamaica can available, but I'm not paid cost as little as $81, which in ''"ough to affprd one. Well, eludes  accommodation, break- maybe in another country I
just under the topsoiL Dig a divot and you might come up with a Roman coin, or a bit of old pottery."
We walked to the practice fairway where the club pro, a former South African, was giving driving lessons to an over seas visitor and a Tel Aviv business man.
"He's a real find," Benjamin told us. 'He knows the game, he can handle Yiddish and French, in addition to his Eng-glish and Hebrew, and he has infinite patience. This last is especially important because most Israeli's know nothing about golL
I "As a matter of fact, there has been some resentment over the building of the course. People say it's a waste of latnd, and that it's unseemly for a pioneer country like Israel to have such things as golf courses.
crevalle?
If you haven't, and you're a fisherman, Jamaica's the place to go.
British Overseas Airways Corporation travel people say the Caribbean island in the sun is one of the world's best fishing spots. And, they add, you don't have to be an expert to fish Jamaica's scores of streams or her offshore banks.
fishing banks are within 10 or 15 miles of the shore and, due to year-round good weather, rough seas are unusual.
More Canadian fi<3hermen are going to Jamaica now than ever before, B.O.A.C. reports. And they take their wives too, who, if they don't like fishing, can spend the days lazing on the beautiful  beaches, sightseeing
You can make a record catch and shopping. Kingston is a
free port which means duty-
fast and dinner.
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I wouldn't be a government Ificial. . ."
of
■'Perfectly  ridiculous. The land here isn't good for anything.else, our grass keeps the sand from blowing about, and j   Herschell  Benjamin, former I i^'s time the Israeli people en-
; British army major, now Israeli M^^^^ ^"^^ graciousness
'   ,., .       ,   ,   'of the life they've fought so
cattleman, is secretary of the ^^^^ f^j..-
Caesarea    Golf and Country
in the more than 40 rivers, or on the offshore fishing banks.
River fishing is morning or evening sport and you'll catch snook, tarpon, calipoeva, drummer, crevalle and snapper, as well as hognose mullet and mountain mullet, which are said to be the equal for sport of any fish caught anywhere
Pov/erful cruisers   will take
free shopping. Prices are generally up to sixty percent lowv. er than for similar articles in Canada, giving one a chance to do some early and unusual Christmas shopping.
British Overseas Airways Corporation Britannias fly to Jamaica from Montreal every you out to the banks for the , Saturday, or you can take re-really big ones—from the dol- gular B.O.A.C. Britannia and phjn, which generally runs 707 flights out of New York, about 35 pounds, to the 100- Flights leave Jamaica every pound king. And then there Sunday. Return fare from Men-are the big marlin—the largest treal i's $250 tourist class and
Club, Israel's first golf club, I scheduled to be opened officially this fall.!He's a lean, spare, tanned man with a clipped mustache and an equally clipped English accent that man-
One of the favorite gathering
places for North-American visitors here in Jerusalem is the Safrai Gallery, which is sponsoring the work of such outstanding Israeli artists as Jossi
ages to keep his speech crisply Stem and Jean David.
cool, in contrast to the rich improvisations of the average
It was while we were loafing around the Safrai Gallery a
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Israel's conversation. But his, few days ago that we had a British understatement is good chance to observe the sometimes routed by his en- [ shopping habitjs of the North thusiasm for the   new   golf, American traveler overseas.
Two couples came in. "They were here yesterday," Samuel Safrai sotto-vpced to us. "Each couple wants to buy two paintings. That means four paintings, multiplied by four people, maizes 16 opinion's. Oy: " he groaned.
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"This is the only course in the world where you can be a duffer and an archaeologist at the same time. The ruins of the ancient   Roman Caesarea lie
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