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...very well, don't you think?" asked Mystery Writer Agatha Christie last week on her 80th birthday as she received reporters at her Berkshire, England, home. "I must have stamina." Stamina indeed. The occasion also marked the publication in England of Agatha's 80th novel, Passenger to Frankfurt. "I call the book an extravaganza," she said, "but evidently it is not quite as extravagant or fantastic as I had supposed." Why? The plot involves a fictional event that this month became fact: the hijacking of four passenger airliners in Africa...
About 45 minutes later, the Front struck again. TWA's Flight 741, which had taken off from Frankfurt, was over the North Sea when the skyjackers seized the plane. "We are being kidnaped," radioed TWA Captain C.D. Wood. Then he set a course for the Middle East. On the flight across West Germany, the captured 707 carrying 149 passengers and a crew of ten was escorted by two helpless U.S. Air Force fighter planes...
Lately the diversification pace has quickened. Young & Rubicam. which has become the nation's second largest agency under President Stephen Frankfurt, agreed two weeks ago to acquire J.K. Gill Co., a retail chain that sells books and office supplies through eleven stores in Oregon and Washington. Y. & R. openly admits that it wants to escape from the agency field's traditionally slender profit margins, which average about 4% of gross volume. From billings of $532 million, Y. & R. last year grossed $78 million. "We would have to have more than $100 million in new billings to bring...
...teenager, she began receiving a series of scholarships. They allowed her to complete high school in New York City and go on to Brandeis University, the Sorbonne and the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. Those who knew her at Brandeis, from which she graduated with honors after studying French literature, and at the Sorbonne, where she studied literature and philosophy, describe her as brilliant but also introverted to the point of aloofness. They recall little political activity beyond civil rights sit-ins. But she has said that during her college years she came under the philosophical and personal...
...shelves. Says one well-educated Hamburg housewife: "If I saw my husband running around the house with a dust cloth in his hand, I couldn't go to bed with him any more. He'd be more like a brother to me." Nonetheless, a group called Frankfurt Women's Action Group 1970 last month held its first teach-in in Frankfurt. The feminists marched outside the main railroad stations with signs proclaiming OUR BELLIES BELONG TO US. Within two hours they had collected more than 1,000 signatures on a pro-abortion petition-including that...