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...Schofield Coryell, "Israel, Marchand de Mort," (Israel, Merchant of Death). Afrique-Asie April 12, 1982; also see Howard, MERIP Reports...
...hard-fought game of doubles at Stockholm's Royal Tennis Hall to defeat Sweden's former Davis Cup Star Jan-Erik Lundquist, 46, and the country's Ambassador to Washington, Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 60, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. The winning team's post-mort opinions of each other's play reflected the differing strengths of their diplomatic strokes. "I think he played very well," said Borg of Bush's flashy net game and a serve that was sometimes hot, sometimes not. Of Borg, Bush bubbled, "Fantastic. Anybody that can carry...
...Mort Ciment, 59, was what Friedman would call a typical Type A. Excitable to begin with, he worked as a Los Angeles commodities trader, a job he likens to "being in a mad cage." When the market was really moving, he says, "there was terrible tension. You'd leave to go to the bathroom, come back and find the position horribly changed." When he got home, he admits, "my nerves were singing, and I'd take it out on the nearest person...
Israeli officials initially professed shock and incredulity at the censor's published admissions. Said Uri Porath, a spokesman for Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "If they are listening to phone calls, it is the first time I have heard about it." Mort Dolinsky, head of the Government Press Office, said, "I have never heard of this listening to phone calls and garbling of telexes. I do not think it works that...
...into four categories: vintage movie actors (Roy Rogers, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Fred MacMurray, Loretta Young, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis), British-born stars (James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Rod Stewart, Elton John), movers and shakers (Henry Kissinger, Armand Hammer) and the special-interest famous (Henry Winkler, Mort Sahl). British reporters were nonplussed by M.C. Ed McMahon but mostly liked George Burns' aging-rake jokes, while the Queen, looking unamused, seemed to scrutinize more than enjoy the pop medley sung by Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. In all, said Britain's Guardian, "not exactly an exhilarating...