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...sights in every Arab land. But except for an occasional trip to Moscow or some other Soviet-bloc capital in quest of arms and aid, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat has rarely ventured beyond the Middle East. Last week Sadat's Boeing 707 presidential jet whisked him westward for a change. By way of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, and Vienna, Sadat flew to the scenic Austrian city of Salzburg for a face-to-face meeting-his first-with Gerald Ford...
...zany mixture of razzle-dazzle football, playground basketball and soccer, Ultimate Frisbee has sprouted on campuses in the East in the past few years and is spreading westward. It could prove to be just the solution for colleges crippled by the runaway cost of athletics -as well as for students who want to play a team sport that avoids high-pressure, must-win contests...
Firm Believer. Anatomists of the Perelman corpus may detect a slight twice-breathed air here, as well as in "Nostasia in Asia," the five-part piece that concludes the collection. Some of the ground and most of the mock dudgeon are reminiscent of Westward Ha! (1948). That magnificent Middle Eastern curse, "May you live a thousand years and a trolley car grow in your stomach annually!" appeared at least once before in The Rising Gorge...
...Marxism consider Grandpa Joad's line in The Grapes of Wrath "I' m stickin' with my farm until Idie"), and Woody Guthrie's "Roll On Columbia." In which he applauds "Tom Jefferson's vision" which "could not let him rest"--that vision being the endless expansion of American farmland westward...
Within 90 days, the composite plan assumes, oil would once again be flowing westward from Dhahran...