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Scene: the White House lawn. Time: after 10 p.m. on the night of a crucial U.N. Security Council debate on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Dramatis personae: CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather and a camera crew that he kept on after others left, in hopes of getting a post-debate statement. TV lights are on, microphones are live, cameras...
...returns. The Israelis are not going to give up easily what they have won, he says; they have always talked about Jerusalem, the west bank of the Jordan, the Syrian heights, Aqaba. Would they reach Suez? The President did not feel that anything would stop them. Good night, Dan. Good night, Mr. President...
...exclusive. A scoop, Rather. But hold on. The President did not know that the cameras were on, said Press Secretary George Christian, who passed the word to Rather via a CBS Washington, D.C., studio executive. Dan can use the material that he got as the basis of a news report, but as for use of the taped interview itself, the President would Rather...
...That left only one Mark IV in the running - driven by Dan Gurney and Indianapolis 500 Winner A. J. Foyt. But it was exactly where it was supposed to be-in the lead. "We kept expecting mechanical trouble," Gurney said later, "but it never came. The Ferraris were no real threat." With Foyt at the wheel, the first man ever to win at both Indy and Le Mans, No. 1 merely coasted across the finish line, 32.5 miles ahead of the pack. In 24 hours, Gurney and Foyt had covered 3,251 miles at a record average speed...
...board of directors elected a fourth. Strouse, who has held the job for seven years, will retain his title of chairman, but he will give up day-to-day details to devote himself to long-range planning and industry speechmaking. Succeeding him as boss of the biggest: broad-shouldered Dan Seymour, 53, who has been JWT's president for the past three years...