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...Jews. We have the Moslems. Now we're going to fight El Al for the Christian trade." So says Aly Ghandour, managing director of the five-plane Royal Jordanian Airlines. With a new twist on an ancient feud, the Amman-based, government-owned line is challenging its larger Israeli counterpart for what Ghandour calls "the Bible traffic"-Westerners traveling in tour groups to Jerusalem...
Also making a major appearance, as he did in a famous feud with Vladimir Nabokov, is Wilson the noble crank. Here he makes a dyspeptic but delightful attack on the cumbersome, pedantic paraphernalia assembled by the Modern Language Association (the college literature teachers' "union") to edit and publish classic American authors. The blame, says Wilson, goes back to "our oppressive Ph.D. system of which we would have been well rid if, at the time of the First World War, when we were renaming our hamburgers Salisbury Steak and our sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage, we had decided to scrap...
UNABLE TO DEAL with his son's apparent insanity, Francis' father drags him before the bishop, a portly libertine who cares more about his lunch and his feud with the secular power of the local governor than about the ravings of a boy with a holy mission. His admonitions to refrain from "subverting the established order" ring as hollow as a parody of a dime-store dictator...
Uncertainty. Efforts to bring some order and rationality to amateur athletics have been going on for years without much success. One attempt to mediate the feud was too much even for Theodore Kheel, an experienced New York labor negotiator who was called in to head a sports arbitration board. "These people," he said after 27 months of investigation and deliberation, "make the Teamsters look like undernourished doves." Kheel's board, however, did issue an opinion in 1968 that spelled out the Jurisdictional rights of both groups. It also provided that neither could "unreasonably" withhold approval of the other...
...always been in foreign affairs, his intense hatred for Nelson Rockefeller might draw him into the race for governor. Rockefeller and Lindsay have been at each other's throats since the middle of the mayor's first term and 1974 might be a good time to settle their feud for good...