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...amateurs. "We cannot dignify them with the name guerrilla or commando," says an Israeli officer. "The Arabs who cross over show no daring. In that respect, they are nowhere near Viet Cong standards." The Israelis do respect Arafat, however. Their intelligence network has twice reported him on Israeli soil, and twice he escaped a dragnet. "Anyone who can do that has to be pretty shrewd," admits an Israeli intelligence officer grudgingly...
...railroad tracks to see what was left of the ball park. It was still there, all right, in the shadow of The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, but now it lay like an abandoned farm. The light poles had been moved around for football lighting, and the sandy gray soil had been harrowed and was awaiting fresh sod for the high school football season. Letters saying "Graceville Oilers Booster Club" had almost faded away on the concrete-block centerfield fence. The portable bleachers in left field had begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were the dugouts, rickety frame sheds resembling...
Much of Lightfoot's wandering, musically speaking, is done amid the vast geography and pioneer history of his native country. "I believe there are times when you should return to the soil, at least in your own mind, and when you should live in the past," he says. Canadian Railroad Trilogy evokes a time
Sedulous Brainwashing. Drama may reach for the stars, but it must be rooted in the soil of "the rough theater." This is the popular drama of crude jests, false noses, stuffed bellies and fear in a faceful of flour. It is vulgar, grotesque and obscene, and it ranges from Punch and Judy to Bertolt Brecht, who argued that the theater should be like a prize ring...
...West Germany, whose surprisingly small ($247 million) U.S. stake reflects a caution resulting from wartime confiscations, may become the biggest investor within the next decade. Hoechst, Bayer and BASF are leading a current surge of interest in manufacturing on American soil the chemical products that they now export to the U.S. The West German government, uneasy about its big trade surplus (TIME, Oct. 25), is strongly urging others to build abroad...