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Barely a mile from Yamit, at the cooperative farm of Moshav Sadot, the Sinai's sandy hinterland has been transformed into a verdant cornucopia. Tomato, eggplant and pepper plants, mango and lichee nut trees are nourished in long rows by painstaking drip irrigation. Collective farmers like those of Moshav Sadot are demanding at least half of the estimated $2.2 billion-or 13% of the 1981 national budget-that Israel has set aside as compensation for the Sinai settlers. But even that will not console all of them. Says Ella Weizman, 31, who sits tensely with her husband Vito...
...verdant, rain-gentled Willamette Valley, they are revered as the team that last season broke hated U.C.L.A.'s 13-year streak as champion of the Pacific-10 Conference. To teams around the country, the Beavers are known and feared for their busy, busy, busy combination of pressure defense and fast-passing offense. Under Coach Ralph Miller, who has produced 507 victories (third highest among active coaches) at Wichita State, the University of Iowa and, since 1971, Oregon State, the Beavers have revived the too often neglected art of passing. On the floor, Oregon State works like a tightly wound...
Death, of course, is life's largest irony. Mortality tolled through Leonard's best-known play, "Da "; in Summer it rustles through the sunlit grass on a verdant hilltop near Dublin. The year is 1968, and three middle-aged couples rendezvous for a picnic. Food, wine, gossip and nostalgic reminiscences mask tiny tremors of apprehension and isolation...
Perhaps Borg's most effective weapon is his unbending determination. Tennis is not just a game, but a contest of wills comparable only to that between two prizefighters or a pitcher and a hitter. For all its elaborate etiquette, its hushed crowds and blazered officials, its serene and verdant settings, tennis is hand-to-hand combat. It is the sizzling serve that leaves an opponent unable to lift the racquet, the passing shot that crushes the spirit, the drop shot or lob that bounces and dies far beyond reach. In the closing games
...island is dominated by The Hills and The Quill, volcanic cones, now extinct. Climbing to the peak of The Quill (1,800 ft.) with a verdant rain forest in its crater is a not too strenuous 80-min. hike. An old Dutch command post, Fort Oranjestad, built on French foundations in 1636, is a neat little 16-cannon salute to colonial glories. This and several other of the island's 17 original forts are on a walking tour laid out by Statia's energetic historical foundation. One of the best beaches is on Tumble Down Dick Bay, apparently...