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NEAR the home of TIME Correspondent Monica Dehn in Jerusalem are two vacant lots that became the sites for major rallies during the election campaign in Israel. For a correspondent covering the campaign, this was a great convenience; but for the mother of two small children (Monica is the wife of London Timesman David Roy Elston), it was a towering nuisance. Before rallies, campaign managers spent half the nights tuning up loudspeakers, one to outblast the other. One midnight some 50 babies of the neighborhood could be heard bawling as loudspeakers blared over and over: "One, two, three...
British-born Monica Dehn, now 35, studied journalism at London University and worked in the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Balkan department before she went out to Jerusalem for a wartime assignment with a Foreign Office radio station beamed at the Balkans. When the British mandate ended in Israel, she stayed on because of her "terrific curiosity about the new state...
...Angeles International Airport, a luxurious ranch-type hotel with a palm-fringe'd patio and swimming pool opened for business, was already booked a month in advance. Built by Real Estate Man Hyatt von Dehn, 45, his Hyatt House has a $75-a-day executive suite for business conferences, 69 other rooms at $8 to $14 a day. At New York City's La Guardia Airport, former Hotel Owner (Manhattan's Paramount and Weylin) Louis Ritter, 48, had the first 40-room section of his $2,500,000 La Guardia Hotel (future size: 265 rooms) open...
...sound baffles and special soundproofing into the hotel's walls, suspended the ceilings. The La Guardia Hotel also hangs its rooms from flexible steel spring clips so that sound waves striking the building will not set walls to reverberating. With both hotels already heavily booked, Ritter and Von Dehn each plan to build similar hotels at other major U.S. airports...
...London Daily Express, has a sound knowledge of English. Other part-time correspondents in the Middle East are Riza Chandir in Istanbul, who operates his own Turkish news agency; Abu Said el Riche in Beirut, onetime correspondent for the London Daily Mail; Ernest Main on Cyprus and Monica Dehn in Israel. In addition to these, a wide network of observers maintains a flow of suggested stories to the Beirut headquarters...