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Hashim hustled, smashed, flicked, and tricked his way to an eight-game draw with his nephew Mohibulla Khan, the world's best squash player. Mohibulla is the 27-year old speedster who needed only 20 minutes to win the United States Open this year, but yesterday Hashim battled him on even terms for almost an hour and a half...
Hashim, now a little slower than his nephew, but no less a shotmaker, varied the pace to hold Mohibulla back. He mixed drives and drops with his pet shot--a volley nick that just rools off the side wall...
Syria's shaky Baath Socialist government seems determined to outdo Nasser in its hate campaign against America. Daily, the press, radio and television vilify the U.S. for what Information Minister Mashhour Zeitoun calls "America's policy of sabotage and espionage" in Syria. Attassi, although he was nephew of one of Syria's former Presidents and a cousin of Noureddin Attassi, the second-ranking man in the present Baath government, had to be hanged as a warning to all agents of "imperialism, capitalism and Zionism." In this atmosphere of hysteria, the $100 million in aid that...
...American comic-strip writers, who have long taken for granted that they are part of the American subculture. Said Al Capp: "At home, nobody has ever asked me for an autograph for himself. It's always for a demented brother who reads my junk, or his idiot nephew. Writers don't take you seriously because you draw. Artists don't take you seriously because you write. Now we come to Europe to find out that it's deep stuff, and if I stay around these guys much longer, I might begin to believe...
Inevitably, University of Tennessee President Andrew D. Holt ordered an investigation, and inevitably it would leave unsolved the generations-old campus question of how horseplay escalates into homicide, high spirits degenerate into low tragedy. How, for instance, did the dead freshman, an unobtrusive nephew of a U.T. English instructor, and his friends come under the gun? Most riot-weary authorities cite mob psychology as a prime factor. "When people feel they're lost in a crowd," notes San Francisco State College Dean Ferd Reddell, "they always grow braver. That's why one way to handle them during...