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...going into effect, word reached Amman that Jordan's Premier Brigadier General Mohammed Daoud, who was named to that post only two weeks ago when Hussein set up an all-military Cabinet, had abruptly resigned. Daoud, in Cairo to attend the Arab summit, disappeared from his Nile Hilton hotel room, leaving a note for Hussein explaining that he was making way for a government of "national unity." His resignation, however, was due to personal as well as political considerations...
...think that they cannot sit idle in their air-conditioned offices making proclamations about the crisis in Jordan." The group, indeed, was able to engineer a merciful cease-fire in Jordan. But Arab leaders also had plenty of opportunity to sit in their air-conditioned rooms at the Nile Hilton and contemplate their growing differences...
...Abilene, was ending his presidency when the class of 1960 graduated from Salina High School. John Kennedy was two weeks away from the Democratic nomination. Recently, 195 members of Salina High's class of 1960 gathered from all over the nation for a reunion at Salina's Hilton Inn. They came partly out of nostalgia, but also out of curiosity-to see what the '60s had done to their classmates and their home town of 43,000 people. TIME'S William Friedman joined them and sent this report...
...graduates kept the local bowling alley open all night. Next evening they assembled for a ham and beef banquet, looking prosperous for their ages and, because of state liquor laws, influencing their Cokes from brown paper bags. On each table at the Hilton Inn was a construction-paper centerpiece noting the most important events of the past ten years. In 1963, John Kennedy's assassination. In 1965, Debbie Bryant (a Kansan) named Miss America. In 1966, Kansan Jim Ryun runs the fastest mile. Not a word about Viet...
...bring guests home because some callers might be spies who would notice the nearby missile site's 65-ft. "Squat Eye" tower, so nicknamed by NATO. Similarly, the Mokattam Casino, from which the view was too clear, has been moved lock, stock and roulette table to the Nile Hilton Hotel, from which no missiles can be visible...