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Sitting on the barren, marshy frontiers of Israel, the typical kibbutz for years was rarely more than a commune of spartan farmers. But as Israel's economy has surged, the kibbutzim are becoming burgeoning industrial complexes and tourist attractions. Ferryboats, their decks crowded with sightseers, stand out among the austere fishermen on the Sea of Galilee. New hotels, some with seaside restaurants, are rising where banana trees once flourished in the subtropical sun. And daily from kibbutz factories flows a stream of products that range from machine tools and stainless steel kitchen equipment to shipping containers...
...Quang Tri May 1. Fragments of families fill schools, pagodas, churches and old U.S. military barracks. Though the government distributes rice, there is never enough to eat, and women can be seen selling penny candy, gum, flashlight batteries, salt-anything to turn a small profit to fill out the spartan diet. When the bread trucks come, covered with flies, young boys sneak up, reach in and steal an extra loaf for their families...
Rarely do he and Alma entertain, and just as rarely do they allow themselves to be entertained. Bedtime, in fact, is a spartan 9 o'clock; he gets up at 7, and when he is between pictures is usually in his office at Universal Studios in Los Angeles by 10, poring over scripts, stories and reports of juicy murders in the London papers...
Even when they are not despoiling the vines or eating holes in Spartan boys there is much to be said about foxes. Foxes are smart. Foxes are vulpine. Foxes have pointy noses and an air of unassailable RED FOX sagacity. There are three great books about foxes. Probably the best known is Beatrix Potter's Tale of Mister Tod, in which the protagonist proves to be fastidious but cowardly. A second, now unhappily out of print, is Alexander Sturm's The Problem Fox, a sly cartoon biography of a precocious animal named August who solves food mazes...
Since it was first run 22 years ago, the Sebring 12-hour endurance test has occupied a special place in U.S. auto racing. Despite its increasingly dilapidated, dead-flat track and spartan spectator facilities, it has invariably attracted top drivers and big crowds eager for a taste of European-style sports-car racing. But the event may finally have run its course-at least on its existing track around a World War II airport. TIME Correspondent Peter Range attended this year's race...