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...outsiders, the very name Sinai conjures up wilderness and desolation. But to some 5,000 Israeli settlers, the startlingly beautiful desert has offered tempting development possibilities, from innovative agricultural communes among the sand dunes near the Mediterranean to the tourist centers along the superb beaches of the Red Sea coast. For them, giving up the last of the Sinai will be a traumatic experience. Many are already bitter and confused. Says Sara Feifels, 40, a Sinai settler since 1974: "When we heard about Camp David, it was like someone saying our child was dying. I went through a period like...
...tour manager of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, an undergraduate mixed chorus, wired the Lebanese National Tourist Office yesterday that the chorus is considering the Office's invitation to sing in Lebanon in July...
...Lebanese National Tourist Office, along with the American University in Beirut and Middle East Airlines, invited the Collegium in February to visit Lebanon as part of the chorus's six-week tour of the Mediterranean this summer...
...moment, McKellen, who is unmarried, lives quietly in a sublet on the northern lip of Greenwich Village, from which he has recently ventured forth to start tap dancing lessons. He has nearly exhausted the usual tourist circuit but remains an enthusiastic-and perhaps impressionable-student of American folkways. "I heard a newscaster on TV and thought he sounded very affected," McKellen reports. "Then I realized he was English." He will return to England after his Amadeus engagement to take possession of his new London house on the Thames and to hang his collection of paintings (he favors modern industrial scenes...
...place as, say, Fall River. The old South exists solely in the mind and its juxtaposition with present-day Birmingham jars as awkwardly as the idea of putting a city with the Hellenic name of Athens in the middle of Georgia. The Asheville of Thomas Wolfe is a tourist trap of unremitting neon. Faulkner cruised the strip of Hollywood. The capital of the New South is Atlanta--a crypto-futuristic city where you can rise 72 stories in an outdoor glass elevator and drink martinis in a revolving bar and look down on people as they smash their automobiles headlong...