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...which both made earlier this year under U.S. mediation pressure, to disengage simultaneously from Yemen. Although Nasser has sent home six shiploads of troops, he has rotated in fresh detach ments, and at least 20,000 Egyptian soldiers are still in Yemen propping up the republican regime of President Ab dullah Sallal. All the while, money and munitions from the monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan still pour across the 25-mile-wide buffer zone to royalist tribesmen supporting dethroned Imam Mohamed el Badr. So far as the actual fighting is concerned, it is still a stand off, with...
...traveled all over the U.S.. recording its infinitely varied landscapes. He organized the squads of artists that covered World War II. in peacetime built up a backlog of impressive portraits of his artist and writer friends. When the ab stractionists took over center stage, he tended to fade from public view. Last week Manhattan's Cober Gallery offered a reminder that Biddle is as fresh an artist at 78 as at the peak of his fame...
...platform jutting from a sheer, null gorge in the Zagros Mountains, the Shah of Iran picked up a ceremonial telephone and spoke an order. Seconds later, tons of water from the Ab-i-Diz River below crashed through sluice gates and began turning giant dynamos. A knot of Cabinet ministers, diplomats and engineers burst into hat-waving cheers as. down in the canyon, electricity began flowing into Moslem villages that had never before known the magic of plug-in power...
Scooters & Checks. Besides Hull & Co., there is the "Scooter Line," consisting of Center Stan Mikita, 22, and Forwards Ab McDonald and Ken Wharram, who have scored 57 goals among them. Then there is the Chicago defense. Only 134 goals have been scored against the Hawks so far this season, best record of any team in the league. Defenseman Elmer Vasko, 27, is the biggest man in hockey at 6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs., and takes a special joy in grinding ambitious enemy forwards into the boards. As for Goalie Glenn Hall, 31, an N.H.L. All-Star...
Brooks's transition from muralist to ab stractionist was no abrupt abandonment of figure for figment. He spent three years as a U.S. Army combat artist in World War II in the Near East, earnestly carrying out official orders to paint "with the savagery of Goya, the romanticism of Delacroix, or. best of all, to follow your own inevitable star." Mustered out, the onetime commercial artist, muralist and teacher of lettering got swept into the new cult of abstract expressionism that was rocking the world in the postwar years, and has managed to turn the style into something important...