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Commercial air traffic was snarled at the peak of the summer season, since regional controllers for international flights are located on Cyprus. With them off the job because of the fighting, airports were closed down at Beirut, Teheran, Tel Aviv and other cities, stranding thousands of businessmen and tourists. Only El Al was flying. The Israeli airline threaded its jets on a careful course to avoid both Cyprus air battles and hostile Arab air space...
...dominated Argentina's politics for three decades and was South America's most famous contemporary figure. His erratic career took him from obscurity to the peak of power, to exile and then to one of this century's most remarkable political comebacks. Through it all, Juan Domingo Perón remained his country's symbol of national unity. He was el Líder, the caudillo who held out the perennial promise that the feuding privileged and underprivileged of Argentina would one day coalesce and turn their richly endowed country into the leading nation of South America. When he died last week...
...traditional forms from outside the theater. For instance, the lovers' first meeting is cast in the mold of one complete Elizabethan sonnet and part of a second; their postnuptial parting is a Provencal alba (which the Bard may have known through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and which reaches its peak of effectiveness in the second act of the aforementioned Tristan); Juliet declaims a Classical epithalamium; and Paris delivers an elegy...
SPEISER'S play has two scenes; the first, a recreation of a Bruce nightclub performance in the late fifties when his imaginative and expressive powers were at a peak; the second a finely imagined dramatization of Lenny's "performance" in court at his last obscenity trial...
This year, faced with the prospect of another onslaught of Americans setting out in a fit of peak to make it to the top of Whitney, the Forest Service has reluctantly limited the number of overnight climbers to 75 a day. Reservations are required. But forget about Fridays and Saturdays through August. Whitney is already booked solid. Give Mount Kilimanjaro a call...