Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly Silent. The President had only 50 miles to come by helicopter from San Clemente; for the astronauts, the trip to Los Angeles took a bit longer - 12½ hours and 3,875 miles from Houston in a hopscotching presidential jet. It was made easier by perfect weather along their route...
...spent by police forces, and more men are being thrown into the battle. Hollywood makes movies about it (The Brotherhood), and readers have put it on the top of the bestseller list (Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and Peter Maas's The Valachi Papers). Organized crime is no longer quite the mystery that it was. It is a vast, sprawling underground domain impossible to trace fully; but there is no longer any doubt that its most important part, its very nucleus, is La Cosa Nostra (LCN), otherwise known as the Mafia...
...such antitank obstacles as the Suez Canal and the Jordan River, and the Palestinian guerrilla drive slowed by, bombing and tight border patrols, air strikes have become virtually the only way for the Arabs to attempt serious blows at Israel. Says Jordan's King Hussein: "We can no longer allow the enemy a free hand in our skies...
Still, the new schedule offers some hope. No longer must the viewer face a season rolling without highlight or change. Little by little, because the specials now show up nearly every night, the schedule is being broken up and poked full of holes. For the audience this means at least more choice-and a chance for some substantive fare...
...Ripon Society, a group of Republican liberals, blames the Administration's "floundering" largely on SBA Administrator Hilary J. Sandoval Jr., an El Paso businessman appointed by Nixon to replace Democrat Howard Samuels, a far more aggressive leader. The society called for Sandoval's dismissal because "he no longer commands the respect of the black and white communities with whom he has to deal." SBA officials around the nation complain that they get no guidance from Washington. Walt McMurtry, executive director of Detroit's Inner-City Black Industrial Forum, voices a common complaint: "Sandoval just does not have...