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...from a raid on Israel they were "clapped in jail and cruelly tortured." In announcing his decision last week to take the Palestine Liberation Organization underground, Chairman Ahmed Shukairy declared that for the moment "the primary struggle is against the tyrant of Amman, Hussein, who has betrayed God, the Prophet, and the Palestine cause." The Israelis, however, can draw small comfort from the Arab feuds. What Shukairy and his supporters in Cairo and Damascus want to do is eliminate Hussein so that they can use Jordan as the springboard for more attacks on Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Intramural Mayhem | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Last week, five days after McChan's release, Judge Carter's stock as a prophet went up while McChan's legal luck began to run out. Two gunmen held up a Baltimore bar, shot a barmaid twice and killed the manager as he knelt in front of his safe from which he had just handed over the cash. The barmaid managed to give police a description. Next day police spotted the getaway car, found McChan in it, held him on suspicion of murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: McChan's Luck | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Fear of kings has always been mingled with love and longing for them. Even Saul was elevated to kingship against the advice of the Prophet Samuel, who warned Israel that a king "will take your sons . . . and he will take your daughters . . . and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king." But the people insisted "Nay, but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." At this, the Lord gave in. "Hearken unto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE CONTINUING MAGIC OF MONARCHY | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...Francisco as an apostle of Culture in behalf of the Container Corporation of America, Communications Prophet Marshall McLuhan, 55, whose sibylline pronouncements have so often been models of noncommunication, explained the McLuhan phenomenon. "People make a great mistake," he said at a press conference, by trying to read me as if I were saying something." Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...would forgive the earthworm for not knowing that the roots, trunk and leaves of the oak tree are really one entity, so must we forgive Bishop Pike if he cannot see that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are really one. Please, no trial. The bishop is neither heretic nor prophet-simply out of his depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1966 | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

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