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...down from its staff over Government House, on Jerusalem's Hill of Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy. Precisely at midnight, the Euryalus passed the three-mile limit of Palestine's territorial waters. From Royal Navy headquarters atop Mount Carmel a flare shot up, arched...
...biggest diplomatic challenges in the region is to launch a dialogue with Syria. Since McFarlane became special envoy last July, there seems to have been as much discussion between Washington and Damascus as during Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy of a decade ago. The Syrians feel they have long been neglected by the U.S., especially concerning their loss of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria during the 1967 war and has now virtually annexed...
...then flash ahead a few scenes. It is the day of a launch, and Glenn is on the phone with his wife, a painful stutterer. Vice President Lyndon Johnson is fuming in his limousine outside the Glenn house, a NASA official is badgering Glenn, but the astronaut stands firm. "Annie, listen to me. I will back you all the way, one hundred percent," says Glenn. "I don't want Johnson or any of the rest of them to put so much as one toe inside our house." Cut to a weepy but relieved Annie Glenn, then cut back...
...century, women today, or ethnic groups today like Blacks and Hispanics--can consider itself at the maturation stage in political status until it can make waves in the sea of candidates for the election to the presidency of the United States. Among several ways of doing this is to launch a candidate from the ranks of a claimant group, hoping to gain the nomination of a major party, influence the nomination, or generate political spinoffs of future significance to electoral politics. Jesse Jackson, an incredibly intelligent person, would have to be rather daft to contemplate gaining the Democratic nomination...
Although substantial prepublication research was conducted, TV-CABLE WEEK, unlike other Time Inc. magazines, could not be effectively test-marketed before launching. Producing issues for even a few cable systems for a long enough time to gauge renewal rates would have demanded nearly as big a staff and computer system as a full launch. Moreover, a test would not necessarily have uncovered the cable operators' reluctance. As the weekly's problems became evident, Time Inc. officials explored alternative editorial formats and distribution systems, including turning the magazine into a monthly. But the only viable possibility appeared...