Word: calls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand. Over the plane's loudspeaker, passengers heard Captain Israel Ganot order, "Everybody down on the floor. Don't move. Keep quiet. God is with us." One who did not obey was Mordechai Rahamim, 22, an ex-paratrooper whom El Al preferred to call an armed passenger but who was evidently a hired security agent. Holding a .22-caliber Beretta automatic, he jumped from an emergency exit and ran toward the attackers, firing as he went...
...Kallia workday is long for the na-halniks, as they call themselves. Eight hours are spent on farm work, followed by four to five hours of military training and guard duty. The settlement provides Israel with a close watch on traffic over the main highway from...
...Catalan influence in his native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates into "Iron Bottom...
Concerted Action. Like many other scientists, the 48 professors and dozens of graduate students backing the March 4 movement at M.I.T. are most incensed about plans for an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, which they call "illadvised and hazardous." They are also opposed to the development of chemical and biological weapons and the enlargement of the nuclear stockpile. Instead, they suggest that scientific research should be turned increasingly toward solving the nation's environmental and social problems. As the first step toward bringing about such a change in U.S. scientific policy, they call upon scientists "to unite for concerted...
...price of gold in Paris last week shot to well over $46 per oz., the highest in two decades. That upsurge reflected, more than anything, smoldering fears about the future of the franc. The spark that started the rise, however, was President Nixon's call two weeks ago for "new approaches" to international monetary problems. It was only an offhand remark, but French speculators misinterpreted it as a sign that Nixon might favor a rise in the price of gold or some basic revamping of currency values. When the President discusses money matters in Europe this week, he will...