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Shortly before 1 p.m., the embassy building came under attack from automatic rifles firing armor-piercing 7.62-mm. bullets. The marksmen, stationed in a partially constructed apartment house 75 yds. away and at the base of a hill 100 yds. away, were obviously after the ambassador himself, and they carefully aimed at the two spots where he would most likely be, his office on the building's south side and his bedroom on the north side. Though the emergency plan in case of attack called for Davies to hide himself in his bathroom, the safest niche in the embassy...
...else has gained 40,239 yds. passing or made 290 touchdowns through the air. Three times Unitas was voted most valuable player in the N.F.L., and he led the Baltimore Colts to four N.F.L. titles. Now Unitas will concentrate on business ventures. But it won't be the same. "I'd like to play another 30 years," said Johnny...
...Lloyd's of London insures the U.S. vice presidency against sporting gaffes, the premium must have risen last week. Vice President Jerry Ford stepped up to the first tee at a celebrity golf tournament in suburban Minneapolis and sliced his ball 150 yds. into the rough. It hit a tree, then ricocheted off the left side of the head of Spectator Tom Gerard, 17. Pronounced fit, Gerard, a high school senior, became the fifth survivor of inadvertent vice-presidential assault in recent years. Spiro Agnew beaned three spectators on the links and stunned Golf Pro Doug Sanders...
Mere Mortals. Nixon's once much feared palace guard emerges as more petty than sinister. Magruder describes how Haldeman once gave his young aide Larry Higby a brutal dressing-down for failing to provide a golf cart to take him 200 yds. across the presidential compound at San Clemente. Haldeman loved to make his far-flung assistants jump by activating their Pageboy beepers, especially when traveling in Air Force One: "[Nixon] and Haldeman and Chapin and the others in the traveling entourage would get up there, 30,000 ft. above the earth, and something would happen to them...
...Palestinians stumbled onto a municipal worker named Jacob Kadosh, 59. "Who are you?" they asked. "A Jew," said Kadosh. "Which way to the school?" demanded the Hebrew-speaking Arab. The puzzled Kadosh pointed, and then was shot in the shoulder. The three men advanced to the school, 100 yds. away, and were inside before the guards realized that they were there. Waving guns and hand grenades, the Palestinians jolted the sleeping students awake with kicks on the feet. "Lakum, lakum [Get up, get up]!" they yelled. Fifteen students, a few teachers and the rabbi realized what was happening and leaped...