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...runoff. Facing each other in a runoff for governor will be William O. Coe, Oklahoma City attorney, and Raymond Gary of Madill, president pro tem of the Oklahoma senate's last session. Willie Roberta Murray ran seventh in the field of 16 to succeed her husband, Governor Johnston Murray (in Oklahoma a governor may not succeed himself...
...Just as Johnston flew off to the Middle East, the massacre of the Arab village of Kibya took place (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953), inflaming the area to its highest pitch since 1948. When he landed, the embittered Arab press greeted Johnston (who heads Hollywood's Motion Picture Association) by calling him the Zionist servant of a Jewish-controlled industry; the eight-nation Arab League rejected his scheme, sight unseen. Jordan said it would rather suffer economic disaster than cooperate "directly or indirectly" with the Israelis. Iraq sent word to Johnston not to bother to come (but later shamefacedly invited...
Rebuffs only seemed to spur Eric Johnston to new efforts of persuasion. Where-ever he went, he deflected tirades by holding up his hand and saying he did not want a yes or no answer right now, just a promise to look at his proposal...
Back at the White House after three weeks, Johnston reported that Jordan "closed the door but did not lock it," while Syria "left the door slightly ajar." That was enough: Salesman Johnston had his foot in the door. He revised his chances from 1 in 10 to 1 in 3. He said he would go back in a few months...
...those months since last October, the atmosphere has changed. Both sides -Arabs, who had not wanted to talk to Johnston, and Israelis, who had not really listened-had devised new proposals. Each revised Johnston's scheme in its own interests. Instead of storing the Jordan's waters in the all-Israel Lake Tiberias, said the Arabs, keep the water behind two dams on the all-Arab Yarmuk. (They also wanted to cut Israel's share of Jordan water from one-third to one-fifth.) The Israelis proposed to double the amount of available water by piping Lebanon...