AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

A group of women, the so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) and three men are seen working as they remove the damage in the totally bombed out Berli...

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the Provisional Government, casts his vote at a school in Rehoveth, Israel, Jan. 28, 1949. (AP Photo)

Leader of the Heruth Party Menachem Begin delivers a speech to his party in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 25, 1949, as part of his campaign during the first...

At center, President Harry S. Truman, left, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, Jan. 20, 1949. (AP Photo)

Some of the 100 British and 70 Hungarian Jewish settlers, load their truck, before setting off to begin to build their new homes in the new Yazur kibb...

Miriam Weiss from Scotland, left and Leah Cohen from Leeds, two of the 100 British and 70 Hungarian Jewish settlers begin to dig the foundations for t...

Some of the 100 British and 70 Hungarian Jewish settlers raise the Socialist, lower, and Israeli flags as they begin to build their homes in the new k...

Some of the 100 British and 70 Hungarian Jewish settlers set off in their truck to begin to build their homes in the new kibbutz, on the hills near th...

Some of the 100 British and 70 Hungarian Jewish settlers begin to erect their prefabricated homes in the new Yazur Kibbutz, on the hills near the old...

Arabs and Jews sit down to a feast to celebarte the building of the new Yazur Kibbutz, on the hills near the old town of Acre, Israel, Jan. 20, 1949....

Some of the 100 British and 70 Hungarian Jewish settlers set off in their truck to begin to build their homes in the new kibbutz, on the hills near th...

Vic Damone, 20-year-old radio singing star, poses with Vinnie DiCarlo, 19, of Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1949. (AP Photo)

The possible starting line up of the Georgia Bulldogs is seen posing, Dec. 29, 1948, in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida . Front row, left to right:...

One of the many thousand so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) cleans sand in the totally bombed out Berlin, Germany, December 22, 1948. (AP Photo)

Seven of the many thousand so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) pose holding their tools for the camera in the totally bombed out Berlin, Germany,...

One of the many thousand so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) flashes a big smile as she cleans bricks in the totally bombed out Berlin, Germany, D...

One of the many thousand so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) cleans bricks in the totally bombed out Berlin, Germany, December 22, 1948. (AP Photo...

A group of women of the many thousand so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) are seen working in the totally bombed out Berlin, Germany, December 22,...

A group of women of the many thousand so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) are seen working in the totally bombed out Berlin with a tractor in the...

One of the many thousand so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) is seen as she cleans bricks in the totally bombed out Berlin, Germany, as a trator w...

Two of the many thousand so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) push a wheel barrow like container in the totally bombed out Berlin, Germany, Decembe...

Jimmy Conzelman and Chicago Cardinals football players whoop it up in dressing room Dec. 12, 1948 at Chicago after defeating Chicago Bears, 24 to 21,...

Famous Swedish actress and singer Zarah Leander holds flowers she received after her concert in Frankfurt, Germany, December 10, 1948, at the Circus A...

A section of the 40-kilometre

This is a suit of parade armor that was worn by Maximilian II, possibly German-made, seen in 1949 in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, on loa...

23-year-old German actress Hildegard Knef is seen sitting on the patio of her house in Beverly Hills' Benedict Canyon, Hollywood, USA, with her husban...

Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears football team in posed action, 1949. (AP Photo)

Sammy Baugh, star passer of the Washington Redskins professional football team, is in his 13th season with the Redskins. Baugh again is rated as the L...

Sammy Baugh, star passer of the Washington Redskins professional football team, is in his 13th season with the Redskins. Baugh again is rated as the L...

University of Kentucky's Ralph Beard is shown dribbling the ball, 1949. (AP Photo)

A gorup of struggling Arab refugees walk along the dusty road from Jerusalem to Lebanon, carrying their children and meagre belongings with them, Nov...

A gorup of struggling Arab refugees walk along the dusty road from Jerusalem to Lebanon, carrying their meagre belongings with them, Nov. 9, 1948. The...

Arab inhabitants sit on the dusty sidewalk watching a passing armoured car, loaded with Israeli troops, in the industrial town of Majdal, Nov. 5, 1948...

Israeli Army jeeps, with mounted machine guns, leave after attacking an arab village in northern Galilee, Nov. 4, 1948, after the population had fled....

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Al Sharra displays a 1948 wanted photo of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir at the final meeting of the Middle East...

This is the main business district of Donora, Pa., seen Oct. 30, 1948, where 20 persons were reported dead and 7,000 others -- half the town's populat...

Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, states rights presidential candidate, delivers a campaign speech in the Texas House of Representatives chamb...

Arab boys and girls share desks in the new Jewish-sponsored Arab school in Haifa, Palestine, Oct. 25, 1948. Segregation of the sexes is still strictl...

Harry Spoon, with shovel, and David Biderman, both of Montreal, work on an air raid shelter in Kfar Blum Jewish settlement near the Syrian border, Oct...

Soldiers of the Israeli Army guard the entrance to the home of Israel's Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, in Tel Aviv, Oct. 22, 1948. (AP Photo/Pringle...

The Rev. C.H. Bunn, host pastor at a convention of religious cultists called

President of the State Council Dr. Chaim Weizmann with his wife Vera, in their home town Rehovot, Israel, Oct. 5, 1948. (AP Photo/Pringle)

Two little French girls dangle their briefcases as they near their school on opening day in Paris, France, Oct. 4, 1948. Schools all over France re-op...

An Israeli soldier carries out arms to a waiting truck from the armoury at Irgun Zvei Leumi headquarters in Jerusalem, Sept. 22, 1948, following an ul...

A model steps out of a shower stall located in the barber shop of the new 20th Century Limited train, stationed in New York, Sept. 9, 1948. The showe...

This rear view of the streamlined 20th Century Limited shows the multi-windowed lookout lounge of the observation car, seen Sept. 9, 1948, near Garris...

The coffin of Irish Nobel Prize winner, poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, who died at Menton, in 1939, is draped with the Tricolor as it is tak...

Early morning mist adds an atmospheric touch to the Fulton Fish Market, New York City's wholesale fish center, on Sept. 5, 1948. Early morning is the...

A farewell wave by Mrs Golda Meyerson, later to become Golda Meir, as she leaves tel Aviv Airport, Israel, Aug. 29, 1948, to take up her appointment a...

Commander of Israel's Jerusalem Brigade, Colonel Moshe Dayan, right, and Arab Legion Commander Abdullah Bey El-Tel, shake hands after a conference in...