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...divisions will be massed under a new umbrella organization called the Summa Corp., presumably for the Latin word meaning highest. The billion-aire-in-hiding, who is reportedly living in Managua, Nicaragua, was expectably silent on his reasons for the sale. Hughes' ex-Financial Adviser Noah Dietrich speculated that "he needs cash" to shore up his Nevada gambling interests and the Hughes Airwest airlines, both hard hit in the recession. Hughes may also need a reserve against the pressure of several pending lawsuits, especially a $145 million antitrust judgment awarded against him in favor of TWA, now on appeal...
West Germany's attempts last week to guard against terrorists served to illustrate the problem. Airport authorities scrutinized every arriving Arab and turned dozens of them back. Bonn's Interior Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, called a meeting of state ministers, who agreed on a plan to require visas of all arriving Arabs, to run security checks on those already in the country, to investigate all militant organizations, and to strengthen security at airports, embassies and office buildings...
What is new without also being controversial? Specials. There will be musical specials (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on NBC, with Kirk Douglas singing in both title roles), comedy specials (NBC's The Trouble With People, five vignettes by Neil Simon), even living-legend specials (Marlene Dietrich...
Thus West German Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, taking charge of the negotiations, was tightly limited in the decisions that he could make. Genscher bargained with the terrorists personally, and offered them an unlimited sum of money for the release of the Israelis; the Palestinians brusquely turned down the offer. Genscher then offered himself and other West German officials as hostages in the Israelis' place, but again he was rebuffed. He stalled for time by insisting that he was slowly persuading the Israelis to change their decision about releasing prisoners. In fact, as Police Chief Schreiber later...
...citizens from Christopher Isherwood and Hannah Arendt to the long lines currently waiting to see Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. Otto Friedrich has combined history and cultural journalism to produce the most vivid portrait of the period yet written. Weaving back and forth in time and place between Marlene Dietrich and Joseph Goebbels, between Berlin and Hollywood, between 1920 memoirs and 1971 interviews, the author, who is a former managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now a TIME senior editor, has recreated Berlin, and his city moves...