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...42nd Street is difficult to clean up, much as it needs sanitizing. The analogy is apt for a cowpath that became one of the world's most famous streets. Forty-second was once the grandest lady of the theater. Florenz Ziegfeld produced his Follies at the New Amsterdam Theater. Gertrude Lawrence, Bea Lillie and Will Rogers were stars of the street, and at the Liberty Theater there was music by George Gershwin, danced to and sung by Fred Astaire. Now it is a center for pornography, perversion and prostitution...
Already, Manning has increased the law faculty by half and attracted some of the country's brightest young legal scholars, including Criminal Law Expert Anthony Amsterdam. He has headed a drive to raise $10.5 million for a new law school, research funds and more professors. Stanford's law students are among the most select in the nation (2,400 applications for 160 first-year places). Activist though they may be, the dean matches them idea for innovative idea. Says one admirer: "Manning assesses student support for an idea and then beats them...
Just after noon on Sunday, two P.F.L.P. agents boarded El Al Flight 219 at Amsterdam. They were Leila Khaled. 24. a stunning Palestinian ex-schoolteacher, and a male companion, still unidentified. In her brassière Leila carried two hand grenades. She had become a guerrilla heroine in August 1969, when she helped hijack a TWA Boeing 707 to Damascus Airport, where a bomb demolished the cockpit after the passengers and crew had debarked. Later she wrote to several passengers on the flight, explaining that the Popular Front was trying to strike at America's Middle East policy and that...
Determined to carry off the job on their own, Leila and her friend waited until the plane had completed its climbout from Amsterdam. With a war whoop, they leaped from their seats, pulled out the grenades and a pistol, and raced forward to the first-class cabin. There they ran into an El Al steward and an Israeli security agent. As the pilot put the Boeing 707 jetliner into a sharp bank in order to throw the hijackers off balance, passengers overpowered the girl and bound her with neckties. Meanwhile the Israelis fought the male skyjacker in a desperate hand...
Meanwhile, another aerial drama was under way. Back in Amsterdam, the two "Senegalese" who had been denied passage by El Al had bought first-class tickets on Pan American's Flight 93, a 747. As Clipper 93 taxied toward its takeoff position, ground controllers?whom El Al had alerted about the attempted hijacking of its craft and about the suspicious passengers it had bumped off its flight and onto Pan American?radioed a warning to Captain Jack Priddy. He halted the 747 and walked through the passenger compartment looking for the pair. When he finally found them, they readily agreed...