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...plus four in Europe and six in the Far East, taking into consideration such matters as the number of times planes are delayed, accessibility, parking and general amenities. In addition to reporting from TIME correspondents who use airports frequently, we used files from Correspondent Marion Knox, who flew in and out of each of the U.S. Top Ten for the story. Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who compiled the guide, has touched down at 107 airports during his own travels, including all of the 20 included in this special report...
...head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, he has to bridge the differences among 32 groups, which have varying degrees of commitment to religion, Zionism and political action. Sometimes he is also a bridge between the U.S. and Israel. Right after the meeting he flew to Israel, where he had a morning conference with Premier Menachem Begin, followed by lunch with U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. Begin is coming to Washington next week for his first meeting with Carter, and the ultranationalist Premier was concerned about how warmly he might be greeted. No worry. He would...
When Syrian forces began attacking Palestinian troops and their Muslim leftist allies during the Lebanon civil war, a worried Yasser Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia seeking help. To the dismay of the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, the Riyadh government refused to intervene with Damascus. But as a kind of consolation prize, Crown Prince Fahd expansively wrote Arafat a check for $5 million...
Only Hope. To some of the Americans planning to enroll this fall. Italy is the only hope. One such group, 105 students under the auspices of the Italo-American foundation, flew to Perugia last week in the face of the ban. Each had paid $4,600 for air fare, a summer course in Italian at Perugia, and counseling services. Although offered the opportunity to withdraw from the program, all 105 decided to see it through. Says Marty Bergman. 22. an Oberlin graduate who was turned down by 23 U.S. medical schools but has been accepted by the University...
...first rocket-pressurized with a bicycle pump and launched from a local dump-failed to fly. Some of his later models flew only too well, taking off from sites in Germany and occupied Holland to impact on London with horrifying effect. But if Wernher von Braun, who died of cancer last week at 65, is remembered by future generations, it will probably be for his postwar achievements. As one of the most valuable war trophies carried home by the U.S., he headed the team that developed the Jupiter C rocket that put the U.S. into the space race by launching...