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LIKE A CEDAR THAT HAS BEEN FELLED! was the banner head used by the Beirut daily L 'Orient-Le Jour in reporting the violent death at age 34 of the country's President-elect, Bashir Gemayel. The cedar is the symbol of Lebanon, especially associated with the mountains. Like the cedar, Bashir Gemayel was a product of Mount Lebanon. The cedar grows and flourishes in harsh surroundings, in unfriendly weather, and so did Bashir Gemayel. He lived in a tough and uncompromising world, reached its zenith, and was felled...
...Right now I'm trying to orient myself to what's going on," said Harry A. Dunlevy, a dental student and graduate of Brown University...
...schoolmaster at Eton. Each car had to be equipped with modern wiring, insulation, safety glass, fireproofing and brakes. Much of the marquetry and upholstery had to be remade, some of it to the original specifications, discovered, miraculously, at a cabinetmaker's in Chelmsford, England. Some 250 Orient Express artifacts, from bud vases to rose silk-shaded lamps, were recreated...
...train once went to Istanbul, but there is no longer enough demand for that service. As it is, the v.s.O.E. is booked solidly through October, and the company has laid on a third weekly trip from London to Venice. On Sept. 1, according to Sherwood, the Orient Express will be in the black. If occupancy continues at the present rate of 80%, he expects the company's investment to be repaid within four years. In its first month or so, Sherwood concedes, he received "a lot of complaints." They ranged from U.S. tourists' grumbling about the sweetbreads...
...most luxurious. It was Tony Bloom who provided the only honest-to-Bond suspense on one trip: he found $17,000 in a dirty roll of bills next to the piano. The money was claimed, an official reported, by "a Frenchman." Mystery and intrigue are not dead on the Orient Express...