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Unwitting Allies. As El Fatah had evidently hoped, a crowd of angry Israelis pounced on and beat every Arab it could find in the vicinity. As police, aided by soldiers on leave, rushed to protect Arab passersby, the mob surged into neighboring Jaffa's Arab quarter, smashing Arab shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Terrorism in Tel Aviv | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

For all the mob's fury, many citizens saw the futility of playing into El Fatah's hands. Some helped police disperse the mob; others gave sanctuary to their Arab neighbors. "The hooligans and inciters to pogroms," said the Tel Aviv Ha'aretz next day, "must be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Terrorism in Tel Aviv | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

A photographer (Ephrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his blind wife (Audrey Hepburn) become the unwitting owners of a dangerous dope-filled doll. Three thugs hoax the husband out of town and then try to coax the heroine into giving up the toy. With mounting anxiety she keeps insisting that she has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Return of the Helpless Girl | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

In this case, W.A.S.P. becomes the author's unwitting acronym for Wholesale, Angry, Sensationalized Paranoia.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Sep. 8, 1967 | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

Hoping to stop the phonies at the reservations counters, the airlines are offering clerks a $25 reward for each ticket they spot against a list of the stolen blanks' serial numbers-which is the only way they can be positively detected. Meanwhile the lines are spreading the word that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Hot Tickets | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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