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Anil Nayar is busy running a sandal and lobster-tail export business in India, but as far as Harvard's squash coach Jack Barnaby is concerned, Nayar himself is India's best export...
After graduating from Harvard, Nayar said, he plans to attend business school or get an advanced degree in economics, with an eye on politics. When he finally completes his education, he'll return to India to solidify the sandal and lobster business...
...Hellenistic sculptures of the succeeding Alexandrian empire, when taste ran to mannered elegance, survive in great numbers. One of the most popular goddesses was Aphrodite, identified by peoples in conquered Egypt and Syria with Isis. She was commonly portrayed primping at her mirror, fixing her hair or adjusting her sandal. St. Augustine testifies that even in his time (the 4th century A.D.) her worshipers repeated these gestures in front of her idol as a form of veneration...
Such is the surefire formula of Italian Director Sergio Leone, 38, whose "macaroni westerns" are the fastest draw in theaters from Youngstown to Yokohama. A veteran of spear-and-sandal epics, he converted to shoot-'em-ups three years ago. To lend a scent of sagebrush to his first western, Leone changed his name to Bob Robertson and imported Clint Eastwood, a lanky, rawboned drover on TV's Rawhide. Eastwood's image was too clean-cut for an antihero, so Leone added the necessary smudges-slouch hat, black cheroot, stubble beard and a ratty-looking scrape...
...face the fact that the war's cost-about $500,000 a day at its peak-is a heavy burden to the Egyptian economy. For all his Russian-made tanks and Ilyushin light bombers, Nasser cannot promise a quick rout of either the anti-Sallal rebels or the sandal-clad royalist guerrillas in the hills. He has resumed air attacks not only on the royalist redoubts but also on border towns in Saudi Arabia, which he claims serve as supply depots for the guerrillas. His foes even charge him with a desperate poison-gas bombing raid in which more...