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...SOS from Sardi's. In Washington. But not in New York City, where there are 41 times as many Jews (1,800,000) as there are in Tel Aviv. Within 20 hours, city hall operators logged 1,677 calls, all but 19 demanding that Mayor John Lindsay call off a scheduled dinner for the King. Candidates in this week's primary elections quickly denounced the hawk-beaked desert monarch. Nearly every major Jewish organization pronounced itself outraged. Protested Dore Schary, national chairman of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League: "We believe it unseemly...
Lindsay-who had won major support from Jewish voters in November -retreated to Sardi's, where he put in a post-midnight SOS call to Dean Rusk. Lindsay suggested that Feisal could "clarify" his remarks, or stay away from the dinner with a diplomatic illness, or, all else failing, agree to a mutual cancellation. The King was not interested. Next morning, the day on which Feisal was to be feted in New York, Lindsay canceled the affair, which, by some stroke of wit or innocence, was to have been held in the Blumenthal Patio of the Metropolitan Museum...
...Limit. Disillusioned and impatient, many foreign bankers do not care to answer any more SOS calls from London, even though they have a stake in the pound as an international reserve currency. Says one leading European central banker: "What we did once again was to buy time for the British. What use they will make of it remains to be seen, but we are quite pessimistic." Another banker puts an "absolute limit" of one year on continuing to bail out Britain. The French, who chipped in $100 million to last week's rescue for purely political reasons because they...
...boast about either). It is commonplace for a French operative to take days or weeks to answer a call, then, after fumbling about for a bit, to leave a flood where only a drip had existed before. Capitalizing on the general state of disrepair among France's repairmen, SOS's two young owners have built up a $1,000,000-a-year business out of providing prompt and relatively effective service. Gerard Verger, 33, and Joel Laval, 31, started SOS (telephone SOS 99-99) in 1961 with two motorcycles and two trucks. Today, they operate 100 trucks...
...service has done so well that Verger and Laval have spread to seven other French cities, Vienna, Brussels and London. Half a dozen competing firms have started up in Paris, but Laval feels that the demand for fix up is still well ahead of the supply. Even SOS has recently turned down some calls for lack of men and trucks. "The service situation in France can't go anywhere but down," says he gleefully, and is making plans to double his fleet...