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U.P.I, first began writing Churchill's obituary, in fact, back in 1931, when he was struck by a Manhattan cab, and has updated it regularly since. The Chicago Daily News had on hand an obit written a decade ago by the late Ernie Hill, then the News's London bureau chief; it has been rewritten twice by Hill's successors. Three months ago, the New York Times assigned Assistant Managing Editor Harrison Salisbury and two more staffers to review Churchill's life and revise the Times's standing obituary...
...From motel to motel followed the reporters, some of them keeping contact by walkie-talkies. Twice, Kuhn and his police escorts leaped 20 ft. from the window of a motel room to evade their pursuers. Another time, Nadjari and Kuhn tried to get away from the press in a cab, paid the driver an extra $20 to keep his mouth shut; the hackie promptly appeared on a local TV show, blabbing his story...
With 40 Boeing medium-range "Whisperjets" in service or on the way, Eastern has ordered another ten. The airline has applied to the CAB for permission to drop service to a dozen small cities- "tobacco-road stops" it unflatteringly calls them. In a joint move that has been temporarily blocked by court action, Eastern and National have offered $15 million to Northeast if the smaller line will withdraw its appeal of a CAB order removing it from the lucrative Florida run, where the three airlines have been battling one another for years for tourists...
...call came from no less a man than Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, and Saigon's prettiest Western correspondent hopped a cab to the general's elegant town house on the Saigon River. There the New York Herald Tribune's Beverly Deepe, 29, found Khanh and his wife decorating their patio. They were getting ready for a petite danse, explained the general with a smile. Then he led the visitor into his study, where they talked for more than half an hour. "It was so fantastic," said Beverly later of what the general told her, "I didn...
...making them potentially useful citizens. Says Shriver: "The head of one of the biggest oil companies in the U.S. told me that in the state of New Jersey alone they could employ 8,000 gasoline station attendants tomorrow morning if they could get them. And in Chicago, the Yellow Cab Co. had a 60% turnover per annum in cab drivers. Now there are thousands, literally thousands of those jobs now open if people would take them and keep them. Those are the kinds of jobs that we are going to begin to try to prepare these boys and girls...