Word: covered
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...Israeli side, things also seemed fairly familiar to Marlin Levin, our Jerusalem stringer, who has been through every previous Arab-Jewish crisis. A U.S. newspaperman from Harrisburg, Pa., he went to the Holy Land on his honeymoon in 1947, stayed on to cover the war of independence, and has been there ever since. When the current clash developed, he was joined by Rome Bureau Chief Israel Shenker and Madrid Bureau Chief Peter Forbath...
Israel, facing yet another climactic point in her 19-year struggle for survival (see cover), remains the biggest imponderable. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol indicated that he would defer an immediate riposte to Nasser's challenge, saying that he had decided on the "continuation of political activity in the international sphere." But he is under heavy domestic pressure to act, and the point may soon come when he will be forced to choose between political oblivion and a move against the Arabs...
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...Vegas Show was overbilled (TIME, May 12), and sponsor backing was overestimated. Last week, with another $450,000 due to cover its A.T. & T. cable costs for June, United, as one broadcaster put it, "simply couldn't pay its phone bill." So, 23 nights after it started, Ollie Treyz's "fourth network" went...
...Soviets also showed a model of their advanced Molniya communications satellite, which in synchronous orbit over Siberia can relay color TV between Moscow and Vladivostok. And Molniya satellites have relayed long-distance phone calls and taken weather pictures of the earth's cloud cover. Molniya was cluttered with so many unlabeled antennas and sensor systems that scientists figured that the satellite was also capable of serving a "spy in the sky" function over...