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...will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after the 1967 canal closing. Nonetheless Foreign Minister Yigal Allon conveyed "heartfelt and most sincere wishes to Egypt that the canal will indeed bear the hoped-for economic fruit." In his speech to the Knesset, Allon emphasized, however, that Israel expected its cargoes to move through too in accordance with the January 1974 disengagement agreement. Although Cairo has hinted that it will allow the passage of nonmilitary Israeli cargoes in non-Israeli ships, Jerusalem was still anxiously awaiting...
...notice much of it. What little there might have been disappeared quickly. Very few of the ex-G.I.'s wore any parts of their old uniforms or gave any overt signs of expecting or getting any preferential treatment or respect. One fellow went around with a chestful of fruit salad, as we used to call decorations, and he wore his uniform for about a year. He is now an avowed homosexual and I suspect he was going through a fierce identity crisis. Uncertain of his masculinity, he was compelled to display it on his chest. Frank Cabot used...
...they gained confidence, the Pythons embarked on ever wilder flights of fancy. Simple moments, such as a karate class being attacked by fresh fruit, grew to sequences like the Killer Joke that caused everyone to die laughing. Ultimately, the Joke was taken over by the War Office and launched against the Nazis in the Ardennes. Another Python classic was the case of the listless cat. "In a rut," declared its owners, who thereupon called in the Confuse-A-Cat team, men in white coats who stage a full-scale military review. The cat watches without twitching a whisker. Then...
...company has had no leader since the February suicide of Chairman Eli M. Black, who had created United Brands in 1970 by merging his own AMK Corp. with United Fruit Co. A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into Black's death uncovered a $1.25 million bribe United Brands had paid to a high official in Honduras in order to win a reduction in export taxes on bananas (TIME, April 21).* Last week the company disclosed that the U.S. Attorney in New York had subpoenaed documents relating to other possible payoffs in Italy, West Germany, Panama and Costa Rica...
Time has been considerably kinder to Comfort's ideas than to Come Out to Play. Its fey style and potty names (Fossil-Fundament, Sir Frank Pus) seem as ephemeral as fruit flies. Worse, Goggins' description of monogamous marriage as the act of buying "meat in unopened cans" is enough to make celibate vegetarianism seem downright appealing.* Paul Gray