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...most of a typical performance, the English rock quartet called The Who live up to their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group." Their beat is tight and jabbing, their guitar backings crisp. Their songs (Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles) aim to divert listeners rather than convert them. Un like current groups performing along the protest-and-prophecy axis, they do not come on like four hoarse men of the Apocalypse. Not at first...
Less Clout. In threatening to divert Government orders from steelmakers adopting across-the-board price increases, President Johnson was brandishing one of the weapons that John F. Kennedy used in his 1962 price showdown with U.S. Steel.* While Government purchases account for about 8% of the steel industry's total output, it is questionable to what extent Government contractors can be forced to switch suppliers. Kennedy succeeded in beating back U.S. Steel's price hikes by persuading Inland Steel Co. to hold the line, but L.B.J.'s lame-duck status leaves him with far less clout than...
...become so commonplace that a virtually automatic routine has evolved for the prompt release of planes and passengers. The matter was far more serious last week when three well-dressed Arab passengers seized Israel's El Al Flight 426 an hour out of Rome and forced it to divert its course from Tel Aviv to Algiers. What the Arabs wanted from their skyway robbery was not a free trip but bounty and hostages to use against Israel...
...money-losing venture, Foreign Minister Michel Debré insisted last week that France will not back out of the project. Whether that assurance remains valid, of course, depends on the outcome of France's elections. A non-Gaullist French government might yield to the rising pressure to divert government spending to social services. Many Britons, chafing at the Concorde's cost, would like to see it scrapped...
...After they learned the identity of the suspect, most Communist media switched to discrediting Israel instead of the U.S. "Arabs at the United Nations express the conviction," reported Radio Warsaw, "that Sirhan was a murderer hired to harm the Arab cause," adding somewhat lamely: "American commentators are trying to divert attention from internal U.S. affairs, which favor the atmosphere of violence, and instead put emphasis on external motives." The Arab press took pains to point out that Kennedy had "paid the price," as Beirut's Al-Bairag phrased it, of a pro-Jewish stand, also suggested that Kennedy...