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...reply: "As much as I could." That was the morning of Dec. 7, the day that McGraw-Hill announced the book in New York. Hughes signed the typed, finished version of a preface to the book. When Irving sought another meeting four days later, Hughes' intermediary was "in a flap" and said he could not arrange it. Irving never saw Hughes again...
Soon after the monumental flap over the CBS documentary The Selling of the Pentagon (TIME, April 5), network news crews began prowling side streets and ducking behind bushes. They were not trying to lie low under the barrage of criticism from Pentagon brass and their congressional supporters. Rather they were at work filming another documentary titled Under Surveillance. They managed to photograph plainclothesmen photographing antiwar demonstrators, shadowed FBI agents shadowing a young radical, interviewed 50 people about how they monitor or are monitored by others...
Will you please check the two holes in the flap of the envelope, if they open this letter (they always do) they can't possibly realign those holes. Dan Nolan
...wilds. But even if this were possible, says London Zoo Director Colin Rawlins, the animals might not be accepted by their fellows. Other captive creatures do not want to go home at all. Of five ravens released from the Portland Zoo in Oregon recently, only one managed to flap out of the cage on his own. The others had to be forcibly evicted...
...disorganization and vagueness about money matters. He says he is apolitical and generally avoids taking firm positions on the air; yet once, faced with a guest who defended U.S. policies in Viet Nam, he ignored the rest of his guests and argued against the war. In his most publicized flap, he succumbed to pressure from ABC and the White House and put an SST proponent on the air unopposed. But with skill, and unconcealed anger, he fenced off his argumentative guest's attempts to turn the program into a full-fledged debate...