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Eban said that his country's military aim was to forestall Egyptian threats to "grind Israel into the dust." The attack, Eban said, "was to eliminate the bases from which armed fedayeen units invade Israel for the purpose of murder, sabotage, and disruption of peaceful life...
...Serling is serving TV (at a record $7,500 a script) some of the most tightly constructed, trenchant lines it has yet spoken. "I love TV," he confesses, "but writing is mostly just fighting discouragement. Sponsor taboos are still the big bugaboo." Discouraging or not, Serling is scheduled to grind out three more teleplays for Playhouse before its first season is played...
Bungles & Breakdowns. The most nightmarish grind on the campaign circuit is the chaotic 18-hour-a-day Kefauver schedule. Often up at 5 a.m., the reporters go through a jumble of airport receptions, several press conferences, street rallies, appearances at fairs and carnivals. Through it all, they suffer the repetitive drip torture of Kefauver's appeals for "the little fellow" (irreverently known among the reporters as "the pygmy vote...
...Tufts' critical point is the line. The Jumbos play a control type game with few passes, and attempt to grind out the yardage like teams such as Oklahoma. Whether the line is strong enough to keep opening up the necessary holes for the backs is debatable...
...though the Sports Car Club of America thought the new track at Watkins Glen, N.Y. too hazardous for car racing, its members refused to back out of the ninth annual Sports Car Grand Prix. Taking it easy on the loose gravel, the drivers spun through a shortened. 50-mile grind, avoided serious accident as George Constantine. a Massachusetts Civil Defense director, pushed his D-Jaguar to a careful victory...