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Both explosions were almost certainly the work of Arab terrorists. In one, a Swissair plane bound for Tel Aviv exploded and crashed after leaving the Zurich airport; all 47 people aboard were killed. In the other, an Austrian Airlines plane was damaged by a similar explosion, but the pilot managed to return safely to Frankfurt. Some dramatic Israeli retaliation against the savage and brutal act of terror seemed inevitable, but by the end of last week, there had been nothing more than a few relatively routine air strikes against Egypt (see following story). The most vigorous protests came not from...
...explosion might have resulted from a malfunction, but investigators doubted it; the blast occurred toward the tail section, probably in the baggage or mail compartment. Only three hours earlier, an Austrian Airlines plane bound from Frankfurt to Vienna (where some of its mail was to be transferred to another AUA flight to Tel Aviv) had been buffeted by a similar explosion that tore a hole in its fuselage. Luckily, the Austrian's pilot was able to land safely at Frankfurt, where experts traced the explosion to a mailbag labeled for Israel. In Amman, an obscure Arab terrorist organization called...
Interval Training. Doubell's coach, Austrian-born Franz Stampfl, understands completely. A Svengali-like figure who preaches mind over matter, he has helped such runners as Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway to world records. "Most Olympic athletes have equal physical capacity," says Stampfl, "but it is Doubell's mental attitude that enables him to produce an inspired performance...
...people were killed in the stampede to get food. At the Austrian Red Cross food-distribution center the food ran out. A thin old man, white stubble on his chin, walked away slowly, looking at his empty bowl. "Give chop? Give chop?" he muttered to nobody in particular...
...than in the book's final poem, "Prologue at Sixty." Now beginning to listen to thoughts of his own death "like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," the poet remains stubbornly tentative to the end. Part prayer, part history lesson, "Sixty" links Auden in his Austrian retreat to the Northern barbarian races-with whom Auden has always been conscious of kinship-and the long sweep of European history. "Turks have been here, Boney's legions,/ Germans, Russians, and no joy they brought." The medium through which such awareness flows is the aging poet full of misgivings...