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YVES BRAYER-Wildenstein, 19 East 64th. Sixty-six oils, watercolors and drawings reflect the dizzying, dazzling light that never seems to set over the gaunt landscapes of the Mediterranean. First U.S. exhibition by this French traditionalist. Through...
...vacation villages), and has helped finance hotels for Pan Am's Intercontinental Hotels Corp. Besides his controlling or significant interests in two dozen other enterprises-the biggest machine-tool company in Brazil, supermarkets and mutual funds in Europe, a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean-Edmond is a partner with the British Rothschilds in building both economy and luxury (up to $90 per day for a couple) resorts in Israel...
Concentrating Rain. Most of the Negev gets less than 6 in. of rain per year, and it usually comes in winter in short, sudden downpours. It does not sink into the hard ground; it pours into the dry wadies, sometimes foaming all the way to the Mediterranean. The best way to make practical use of this sort of rainfall is to concentrate the water as much as possible where it will do the most good-which is exactly what the Naba-taeans did in the Negev. The more Glueck studied their works, the more he admired their industry and engineering...
...were Chinese, I would think and work Chinese," says Christos Capralos, 55, but Capralos is a Greek and everything is all Greek to him. He lives against the azure sky that reflects the Mediterranean, surrounded by olive groves that mantle mountains where the nobility of man has been the artist's ideal since the days of Polyclitus. Capralos does not mean by his remark to compare himself to the ancients; he aims at modern work while remaining tied to the ancient tradition...
...globe. Last week McNamara announced that the Army-Air Force Strike Command would take over top U.S. military authority in parts of the Middle East, in Southern Asia, including India and Pakistan, and in all of Africa south of the Sahara. The Navy's Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean headquarters had previously held much of this authority...