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...promote the political federation of the Middle East-and to enable the British to deal with a single Arab agency instead of with half a dozen squabbling dynasties. At that moment, Saudi-Arabia's crusty old Ibn Saud grandly proclaimed that the league "enshrines the fondest hopes of the Arab people," yet by the time it was three years old, it went down to dismal defeat and division in the Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the Arab League has been torn by feuds between Egypt and the Hashimites (Jordan, Iraq), precariously held together only by a common desire...
...fighters, which could not have destroyed more than 10% to 15% of a force attacking in daylight. At night, or during instrument conditions, U.S. interceptors would have shot down less than 5%. A well-executed surprise atomic air attack on the U.S. would have succeeded, said Whitehead, "beyond the fondest hope of the [enemy] commander...
Last week John Gregg's fondest wish was fulfilled. Manhattan's McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., which bought the school in 1948, announced that it was turning it over to Northwestern University. There, bearing its founder's name, it will continue to operate, just as John Gregg always wanted...
...papers in his empire, the late William Randolph Hearst was fondest of the San Francisco morning Examiner (circ. 225.000). Beyond being the No. 1 paper in San Francisco, it has long been the best in the Hearst chain, and The Chief gave it a measure of freedom that he granted to no other. The man who won and well used his independence: Publisher Clarence Richard Lindner, who was as different from most Hearst executives as the Examiner is from other Hearstpapers...
...years "for espionage." For his bedridden wife, Russian officials had a letter scribbled in pencil on plain paper: "I am a prisoner in the Soviet Union. I am in fairly good physical condition, though I have to work here in the jail. I am longing to see you. My fondest love to our son and friends...