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Died. Pinhas Sapir, 66, Israel's political gray eminence; of a heart attack; during a visit to Nevatim, a Negev agricultural village. Nicknamed "Bulldozer" for his drive and blunt pugnacity, burly, Polish-born Sapir immigrated to Palestine in 1929, was jailed by the British in 1933 for his militant...
Of course the oil-deficient but otherwise potent industrial nations would never permit themselves to become impoverished. They would first act boldly through energy sharing and saving and political and economic boycotts to stem the drain of money and transfer of power to OPEC. If the major oil consumers form...
The prospects of a slumping economy and rising taxes in Britain have led many Americans living there to consider packing for home. Now, one of England's richest resident expatriates, Oil Midas J. Paul Getty, 81, has announced plans to leave his 1,050-acre Surrey estate next March...
Two months into the season, the obstreperous A's think Dark is anything but a baseball messiah. "The guy's a quack," say some players. His managerial style is unquestionably unusual. If a player ignores his directions, Dark merely contemplates the dugout's top step. When the...
Kirstein's lifework, as it happens, takes in a good deal more than dance. A poet, art critic and onetime novelist, he seems to have an aesthetic Midas touch that produces quality in virtually everything he takes up. At Harvard he established and edited the magazine Hound and Horn...