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...should have been baggy-eyed and rumpled at the end of the most hectic week of his life. But Shimon Peres, as usual, was relaxed and well-groomed as he sipped Turkish coffee in his Defense Ministry office while discussing Israel's latest political crisis with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Correspondent David Halevy. The only clue that the pressure had taken its toll: Peres, 53, whose memory is notably accurate, from time to time peeked at a small pocket diary to check on his recollections of what he called "in political terms, a complete revolution...
...HACK'S BAR to ARTHRITISto STOP THE B-1 BOMBER).But since I only have 70 lines, I can't tell you all those stories. Instead, I'll have to concentrate on two runners: a Turk named Veli Bally (or Eeli Bally, depending on your command of Turkish) and a Winthrop House sophomore by the name of Bill Berkeley...
...built to carry nearly 400 passengers. Yet the 747 has proved remarkably lucky in the years since, carrying 140 million passengers and logging 2.25 billion air miles with only two fatal mishaps. When the first major wide-bodied aircraft accident did occur, near Paris in 1974, it was a Turkish Air Lines DC-10 that carried 346 people to their deaths. The 747 seemed destined to suffer mainly in movie fancy-in a mid-air collision in Airport 75, in a crash at sea in Airport...
...Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, the young Stravinsky, even the Prokofiev of Love for Three Oranges. Russlan is a delicious fairy tale scored with lightness and quick invention. The orchestration confirms accounts of Glinka's thorough knowledge of Mozart and Rossini. His inclusion of Russian folk music, Turkish airs, even the whole-tone scale from the Orient (more than half a century before Debussy) suggests that he was exceptionally curious and open-minded...
Family life revived-with a vengeance. "She thought everybody should experience international cooking," Charlie recalls. "She served Greek dishes, North African couscous, Turkish goulash, and she and the kids would dress up in the costumes of the country of that evening, and I was supposed to read about it from the encyclopedia. The point was that I saw how hard she was trying, and I couldn't help but respond. Her efforts showed up my failures...