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...population of the states is illiterate, and women remain in purdah behind grilled windows. But Gulf Aviation's frequent BAC-111 jet flights now link the wealthier states more closely than camels ever did. At the bars in the vast airport terminals, Arab entrepreneurs in long robes sip Scotch to the piped-in music of Ray Charles; porters pause during prayer hours to kneel on the floor facing Mecca...
...early as mid-September, when most other N.B.A. teams were just beginning to loosen up for the coming season, Sharman was already putting his team through long punishing workouts. In the past, the Lakers' exhibition series in Hawaii had been a time to loll on the beach and sip a Mai Tai or two. This season, game or no game, Sharman hustled the team off each morning to a rickety, dimly lit high school gymnasium to sweat for three hours in the tropic heat. "I went to Hawaii with a tan," says Jerry West, "and I came home without...
Light winds prevailed on Saturday, allowing completion of only one of the three planned races. The Crimson saw a seemingly secure second place evaporate in the thin air to a dismal seventh. Yale's Pat Seaver dropped anchor to sip beer until the changing tide carried the bull-dogs across the finish line in first place...
...chef, who specializes in the hot, spicy cuisine of Szechwan province. One member of a group of 15 Canadian amateur sportsmen who recently dined at the embassy recalls that toasts were made "to us, to you, to sport, to friendship between our two countries. Every time we took a sip, they refilled our glasses." But, he adds, "they're pretty careful about how much they drink themselves...
...houses of pale red brick sometimes trimmed in yellow or faded blue, and ramshackle brick apartment buildings, of wooden street-corner stalls selling fruits, soft drinks and sweets, and of a few shops that feature more slogans than merchandise. The cafes are eternally packed with workers in shirtsleeves who sip Turkish coffee and pass the time in endless conversation in apparent defiance of the Communist Party's credo of hard work. It is a pedestrian's heaven; Albania is quite possibly the most earless country anywhere. The people are suspicious, curious, unsmiling-testimony to the effectiveness of Party...