ISSUE DATE: June 12, 1967; Vol. LXIX, No. 24

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TOP OF THE WEEK:
THE MIDEAST CRISIS: All week long, the Mideast simmered through another major crisis --a facedown that involved not only the Arabs and the Israelis but the twin colossi of the nuclear age, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. With the battle flags all but unfurled, Lyndon Johnson's diplomats groped for a peaceful way out--and hoped the Russians would hold their Arab allies in check (page 25). But the Arabs backed up their belligerent words with an unprecedented show of unity behind Egypt's mercurial Gamal Abdel Nasser (page 38). And goading them on was Ahmad Asaad Shukairy's Palestine Liberation Organization, spearpoint for 1.3 million Arab refugees (page 41). The showdown could come as early as this week, If Western sea powers test Nasser's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba.

COVER: THE ADVENTURERS: As church bells clanged and Britons cheered, Sir Francis Chichester, 65, sailed last week into Plymouth, completing an epic, 30,000-mile voyage around the globe. His trip alone--and his whole remarkable career--reminded the world that man still has a phenomenal capacity to seek and to endure. Indeed, even as he arrived, other adventurers were proving the same stirring point. Who are these rare men? What do they seek? To find out, Newsweek asked its bureaus to report on today's adventurers. From their files, Associate Editor Raymond Carroll wrote the story. (Cover portrait by London Sunday Times.)

BIRTH OF A NATION? When Newsweek correspondent John Barnes arrived on station in Africa earlier this year, one of his first assignments was Nigeria-- the continent's most populous nation. As the situation there decayed, Barnes revisited the country, roaming across it and interviewing its leaders. Last week, when Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu proclaimed his Eastern Region the independent Republic of Biafra, Barnes returned to chronicle the birth of one nation--and the breakup of another.

UNSHIPSHAPE INDUSTRY: For nearly 100 years, the U.S. maritime industry has been battered by economic storms, prospering, ironically, only in wartime when the nation's enemies are actually trying to sink it. Now, the government is proposing a $4.8 billion program to revitalize U.S. seafaring--and as many unions, shipowners and shipbuilders are nst the plan as for it. From reports by Newsweek correspondent ay Seeger in Washington and Assistant Editor August von Mugin New York, General Editor Lawrence S. Martz describes a union chief calls "the craziest business in the world."

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
In tighter straits: LBJ's move.
The M-16 rifle under fire.
The Senate's Majority Whip on the loose.
The hippies are coming.
Buffalo's Fiedler affair.
Rioting hits Boston's Negro ghetto.
The Supreme Court on open housing.
Spiking the hopeless plane plot of Mr. Z.
THE WAR IN VIETNAM:
Enemy pressure on the cities.
Booby traps--vc secret weapon.
INTERNATIONAL:
The Middle East fuse burns shorter.
Arab refugees--nothing to lose?.
De Gaulle's Roman triumph.
A Russian writer speaks out for liberty.
Argentina's labor unions.
China: how Chen Vi does it.
Biafra--Africa's newest nation?.
SPORTS: A turbine racer takes the lndy--almost; Pace-setting wonder horse Romeo.
SPECIAL REPORT: The old man and the sea (the cover).
SCIENCE AND SPACE: Ames Center's far-out research.
PRESS: Picking up the pieces of New York's WJT; Times Mirror Co.: a question of monopoly.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
The Pentron scandal--and more to come?.
A triumph for Goodyear at Indianapolis.
New York City's apartment mess.
Wall Street: oil and the Mideast crisis.
Why the U.S. maritime industry is now so unshipshape (Spotlight on Business).
TV-RADIO : Pat Paulsen and the Smothers Brothers; The short unhappy life of UNC.
RELIGION: The Pope creates 27 new cardinals; A union of conservative U.S. Protestants?.
MEDICINE: Do leukemia "clusters" mean contagion?.
LIFE AND LEISURE: Answering services: a ringing success.
EDUCATION: Southern Illinois U enters the mainstream; The activists' summer of discontent.
THE COLUMNISTS:
Emmet John Hughes--The Buried Meaning of a Crisis.
Kenneth Crawford--Continuing Cold War.
Paul A. Samuelson--Population.
Raymond Moley--The U.S., U.N. end U.K.

THE ARTS:
MOVIES:
Lolita on the Oregon Trail.
"Barefoot in the Park".
BOOKS:
The fantastic life of Sir Richard Burton.
Philip Roth's "When She Was Good".
"Children of Crisis": human havoc.
Ambrose Bierce, public executioner.
MUSIC:
Britain's ripping Bluebells.
Cole Porter as he was.
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