Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within hours, TIME correspondents were going after the story in force. And in a year that has seen more than its share of grim news, their assignment offered a pleasant, if hectic, change of pace. A quick phone call to Rome sent Bureau Chief Jim Bell flying off to Athens. There, with the help of our stringer Mario Modiano, Bell chartered the only plane at the airport that was not controlled by either Onassis or the Greek government. He was taken for a look at Onassis' private island of Skorpios, and he is still frightened. "The pilot passed...
...initiative. During their often fiery involvement, La Callas sometimes occupied a suite in Monte Carlo's L'Hermitage hotel, near Onassis' apartment and offices; a tunnel connected the two. Though Callas was most frequently photographed aboard the yacht, it had been Tina who inspired "Telis," as his friends call him,* to buy the Canadian frigate Stormont in 1954 and convert it to a yacht, which he named for his daughter Christina...
Lashed to a Halt. Bunting was ordered, signs made, mikes arranged, reception committees organized. Then the dragon's tail effect lashed out. On the morning before Humphrey was to arrive, Murphy got a call from Detroit. Humphrey had helped the cause too long and well at a discotheque fund-raising féte the night before in Manhattan. His doctor-mentor, Edgar Berman, had prescribed a good night's sleep. Humphrey would spend the night in Detroit. There went the schedule: scores of hotel rooms, the airport greeting, even the suburban housewives waiting for their chat. What about...
They waited for a reply while all sorts of rumors rose in Hartford and Murphy's office staff drooped in depression. Phones jangled. Strangers asked questions. Murphy kept mum. At 2:28 p.m. the call came through: "Humphrey stays in Detroit overnight." Scrap the airport greeting. Organize a daytime rite. At 3 p.m. came another call: "Humphrey arrives in Hartford at 11 a.m." Scrap the housewives. Goodbye, Connecticut General. A fuming Bailey reached Humphrey again and growled: "You're going to stand up 300 women and 2,000 insurance people because you want to sleep one more hour...
...bread for a ticket? Student ushers are needed for the "11 Votes for Freedom Rally" at the Boston Garden, October 25. Call 868-5458 between...