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...ORIGINAL PERICLES is a bad play. It is the syrupy-sweet story of "the paynfull adventures of a Gentleman of Tyre" only scarcely joined together in a scattered plot. The play has been attributed to a handful of people and Shakespeare is said to have written very little of it, so there is no sacrilege in the efforts of Randy Echols to rewrite and improve. The production at the Loeb Ex makes a success out of the doctored script with several Leob veterans who have coordinated their schedules to produce a cast of rare balance...
COME NINEVEH, COME TYRE...
Come Nineveh, Come Tyre is the fifth and penultimate novel in what the author calls the Advise and Consent series. Escalation has continued. Nothing less than the destruction of the American republic, and its transformation into a totalitarian dictatorship, is this book's story. It includes the assassination of a presidential candidate, the suicides of a President and a Vice President, and an incipient bloodless takeover of the U.S. by Russia. Drury's political principles have hardened into sclerotic pieties. Few would argue that the Soviet Union could never be tempted into acting out her ancient ambitions...
Meanwhile, the fighting spread far beyond Beirut. Major battles rocked the port of Tyre, 45 miles to the south, and broke out in stretches inside the northern and eastern borders, where at least 2,000 Palestinian troops crossed into Lebanon from bases in Syria. The Syrian government insisted that it would not send its army into Lebanon, but its sympathies, like those of Libya, were clearly with the fedayeen. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi urged the guerrillas to seize the Beirut airport so that he could send them Libyan fighter planes. Syria closed its border to Lebanon; with the Beirut airport...
Died. Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., 69, only golf champion ever to take the sport's Grand Slam by winning the British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open in one year; in Atlanta. The Jones family home was located on the grounds of a suburban Atlanta golf club, and young Bobby was weaned on putters and par. Playing as an amateur-he was a practicing attorney-Jones ruled the fairways during golf's "Golden Age." Between 1923 and 1930 he was thirteen times a winner in major tournaments. Though his Grand Slam in 1930 marked...