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International efforts to halt the fighting were similarly troubled. In the same curt tones with which he had rejected a U.S. plan for bringing peace to Lebanon two weeks ago, Syrian President Hafez Assad rejected a French proposal for installing a United Nations buffer force between the warring sides. "It is not logical that a buffer should be established between troublemakers and mutineers on the one hand and the legitimate forces on the other," snapped Assad, whose troops in Lebanon are nominally under Sarkis' command...
...Curt Bagne...
...chess fanatic," says Op Artist Victor Vasarely, a resident of Gordes in the South of France. So when Actor Curt Jurgens invited him for a few games at his villa in nearby Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Vasarely arrived with chess set in hand. And not just any old set. The artist himself had designed the Plexiglas board and chessmen. Says Vasarely modestly: "It is an immense pleasure for the eye." He now plans to sell signed and numbered copies of his creation. The price...
...basis of Westermann's art, which provides both the curt humor and the haunted pessimism with a formal matrix, is craftsmanship. After quitting the Marines in 1952, Westermann eked out his G.I. Bill income by working as a handyman and carpenter-precariously, since his standards of joinery and finish soon became too high for him to be employable in the quick-profit building trade. His sculptures have always been exquisitely made, the rare-wood inlays done with a skill almost vanished from modern American joinery, every miter and dovetail fitted to perfect tolerances. This pitch of care gives...
...What was the unintentional but nonetheless incredibly dirty thing that Curt Gowdy said during the broadcast of the first game of the 1975 World Series...