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After the Six-Day War in June 1967, Dothan noticed that Arab antiquity shops in the Old City of Jerusalem-just conquered by Israeli troops-were stocked with ancient Egyptian artifacts. When Dothan asked where they came from, the dealers specified Hebron, in the mountains south of Jerusalem. That was clearly a tall tale; some of the artifacts-jewelry, clay masks, even coffins-still bore grains of yellow Mediterranean sand...
...ground-to-air missile. Suddenly, Castro pushed the button. A missile went up and, Franqui writes dryly, "the plane came down amidst the consternation of the generals." The U2's pilot, Air Force Major Rudolph Anderson Jr., was the only known U.S. combat casualty of the six-day crisis...
Spectators were frisked and had to walk through metal detectors. Twice a day, dogs sniffed around for bombs. The courtroom was crammed with evidence-wigs, explosive paraphernalia, even the proverbial kitchen sink (it bore palm prints). Only one thing was missing during the six-day trial at the federal office building in Chicago: a defendant...
...jelly bean is a descendant of Turkish delight, a gelatinous confection dating from biblical times, and a French technique called panning, in which the soft centers are hard-coated with syrup and sugar; the process takes up to two weeks. Goelitz plants in California and Chicago are now on six-day weeks; new orders take two months or more. Unless you drop in at the Oval Office...
...trouble with him," jokes Mattie Jones, wife of the only black American imprisoned for all 444 days of the crisis. The son of a public works employee, Jones joined the State Department as a communications officer in 1965. He was stationed in Cairo in 1967 when the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War erupted. In 1975 he was one of the last Americans to flee Saigon. And then, on Aug. 23, 1979, he arrived in Tehran...