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...White House, and a three-screen TV console. The charge for room and medical services to the President, as Commander in Chief (and Navy veteran), is the same as for any Navy man: $1.09 a day-unless he elects, as he did in January, to pay the $42-a-day rate for nonmilitary patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Not a Usual Man | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...revenge. The turnabout, however, had been engineered not by the Press, but by Cleveland TV station WEWS, which had also dispatched a team of newsmen to England. They had avoided the swarm of competitors waiting at Falmouth and had set out to sea from Penzance in a $500-a-day fishing trawler. When they were 265 miles out, they spotted Manry, who invited them aboard. They interviewed him for three and a half hours on sound film, then telephoned the gist of their interview to Cleveland from the trawler. WEWS, also owned by Scripps-Howard, operates independently of the Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Scoop at Sea | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

Overbearing Allies. Noman's peace drive obviously has the tacit blessing of Nasser, who is pained by the $500,000-a-day drain and the occupation of the Egyptian army in a bloody and endless war. In fact, everyone is fed up. The royalist tribes have had their villages bombed to rubble and lost an estimated 40,000 dead. The republican tribes resent their overbearing Egyptian allies, and are discouraged by lack of success in the field. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backs the Imam, would be happy to see the Egyptians leave Yemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: A Man to End the War | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

Jimmie Lee Jackson was a $6-a-day Negro woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe. State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the stomach, and died eight days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Eulogy for a Woodchopper | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...days the Malcolm X family stayed with friends. On the eve of his death, Malcolm checked into an $18-a-day room at the New York Hilton. Within a few hours, three Negroes turned up in the lobby, began questioning a bellhop about his room number. They left when hotel detectives started taking an interest in their interest. Next day Malcolm X left the hotel for a speaking engagement-at the Audubon Ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Death and Transfiguration | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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