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...want to read at breakfast," took control of the Chronicle. As his right-hand man he picked Scott Newhall, lively scion of another leading Bay family. Dipping into Hearst's own bag of tricks, Newhall and Thieriot began converting the Chronicle into a blend of sex, sensation and spice...
...Spice, meat, and candy vendors were herded behind their rickety counters to let the archbishop and his party pass. "A bit difficult sightseeing this way, isn't it?" said Dr. Fisher. The archbishop entered the three-sect Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Greek, Armenian, and Roman Catholic priests fought for his attention. "It is very hard to compress eternity into only a few moments," said the archbishop, as the organ began pealing God Save the Queen. (The organist was a Belgian Catholic who had no idea what else was appropriate for an Anglican churchman...
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* The unearthing of the remains of Timna, the capital city of the pre-Christian kingdom of Qataban, by a pioneering archaeological expedition to the spice caravan routes of Southern Arabia...
...Good Hoggin'." To spice this heavy diet of conservative football, Schwartzwalder often gambles for a touchdown. "When we come out in punt formation," says he, "we are prepared to do any of five or six things other than kick, if the quarterback sees the defense is overcon-centrating on blocking the punt, or over-concentrating on falling back to get a good runback. The perfect play, you know, is going where the defense isn't. Football is a long way from being all physical...
...Sultan of Zanzibar, 81, who had reigned over Britain's East African island protectorate since 1911; of a heart attack; in his royal palace. One of the most benign of small-time despots, the British-admiring Sultan was highly regarded by the quarter-million inhabitants of his spice isle, most of them Moslem blacks known as "God's Poor," the rest chiefly higher-class Arabs descended from conquerors of yore...