Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Returning from Jamaica, I have just seen TIME's Nov. 10 review of my book Leyte. Of all the sheaf of reviews awaiting me on my desk, this stands out as the one which grasps what I was trying to do, and which, moreover, says that I did it. No wonder I am pleased...
THERE'S nothing new to photograph," the AEC said. But Associate Editor Alvin Josephy persisted, visited unclassified laboratories and plants from Massachusetts to California, proved there was plenty going on that had not been seen before. Convinced, the AEC provided clearances for Photographer Jerry Cooke, even volunteered guidance to the U.S.'s most important centers of atomic research and development. The result, despite problems of security ("Don't look at anything on that table, point your camera straight down this aisle") and radiation hazards ("You can stay in this room only 50 seconds"), are first pictures...
...November 1957 Joanovici got police permission to pay a visit to his mistress in Paris. He was not seen again; but the Minister of the Interior received a letter in which Joanovici "regretfully announced" that "I am not able to earn enough money to reimburse the state . . . therefore I am compelled to leave France." Days after his departure, the police unearthed a vast financial scandal: groups of businessmen had looted a billion francs from the treasury by obtaining tax rebates on nonexistent metals and other goods. Said the chief accused, one Pierre Bercque: "I was just...
Joanovici was reported seen in Germany, Switzerland, Egypt. But he turned up in Haifa, Israel, in a small group of Jewish refugees arriving by plane from Morocco. He gave his name as Joseph Levy. "All ten of the passengers on the plane had passports in the name of Joseph Levy," he adds with a grin...
...delayed the completion of the building 200 days. But it was worth it. "This is a real landmark," said one Indian last week. He was talking not about the jewel-like chancery itself, but the motel-like adjoining servants' quarters, the like of which New Delhi has never seen...