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When he started to play in junior tour naments, there was no mistaking his tal ent, but his unorthodox strokes were a bewilderment. As he grew stronger, he gave up using both hands on his forehand, but the two-handed backhand had be come a fixture of his game, as had the fondness for topspin...
...beset with economic woes, an energy crisis, weak leadership and growing self-doubt, Americans can take unalloyed pride in the honors that have been bestowed on its men and women of science. Since 1946, 100 U.S. citizens have won Nobels in the sciences, more than half of the to tal number awarded and far more than America's nearest rivals: Britain, with 34; Germany, 13; the Soviet Union, 8; and France, 5. The record is nearly as impressive in what Thomas Carlyle called the "dismal science." Since the establishment of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 1968, Americans...
...element." There has been an influx of younger, Middle Eastern Jews into the trade. Says one oldtime cutter: "They are aggressive, irresponsible, not steeped in tradition." Broker Pinchos Jaroslawicz, 25, made the mistake of trusting one of these new diamond workers, a young Israeli named Shlomo Tal. Jaroslawicz took along his pouch of diamonds one day in September 1977, when he went to call on Tal. The young Israeli and an accomplice were found guilty of murdering and robbing the broker and stuffing his body, wrapped in plastic, into a wooden box in Tal's office...
...euphoria, one Israeli correspondent even managed to get an interview with Mrs. Sadat. But for Shabtai Tal, Israeli correspondent for the West German magazine Stern, his most moving moment may have come during dinner with another Israeli at a restaurant near the pyramids. When the proprietor discovered the diners' identities, the restaurant's small band immediately struck up the stirring strains of Hava Nagila, the popular Israeli folk song. Said Tal.later: "Can you imagine what it was like for me to hear that song played in Egypt? It was like a dream." Moving about the capital, other Israelis...
...skyjackers were unusually secretive about their identities. In a brief conversation with an agent of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cyprus (who said he was trying to persuade the terrorists to surrender), one of the skyjackers called himself Harda Mahmoud. He claimed to be a survivor of the Tal Zaa-tar Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, which had been overrun by Christian forces during the Lebanese civil war. The other male terrorist identified himself as Walter Mohammed. The skyjackers may be members of Min Beirut, a previously unknown Beirut-based guerrilla group that last week claimed responsibility for the skyjacking...