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Held in the grip of a fanatical socialist party that seeks to wrest from Egypt's Nasser the leadership of the Arab left, Syria has become the epicenter on the seismographic chart of Middle Eastern turmoil. From the Sea of Galilee to the Gulf of Aden, its mortars and machine guns, tanks and terrorists ply their disruptive trade not only against Israel but against the nations of the Arab center and right...
...generally unfriendly climate, Texas' liberal rump flourishes mostly along the state's industrial Gulf Coast, among its Mexican-American minority concentrated in the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere in south Texas, and on some college campuses. As a group, it has rarely been able to wrest control of the state government from the oil, land and financial barons who have traditionally kept conservative Democrats in power. The liberals' chief foe nowadays is Governor John Connally, an old L.B.J. ally, who nonetheless has repeatedly blocked such Great Society-oriented proposals as state minimum-wage and industrial-safety laws...
...year was 1924, and an upstart Massachusetts Republican named Joseph W. Martin Jr., 39, launched a no-holds-barred campaign to wrest a congressional seat away from a sickly 83-year-old incumbent. "This is not a time for sentiment," snapped young Joe Martin in announcing his candidacy. "The office of Congressman is a position for one in vigorous health if the people are to be adequately served...
Kesselring himself could hardly have prevailed against a populace so shifty that when a man quarrels with his neighbor he adds injury to insult by letting his donkey eat the neighbor's grass. In the belly-busting climax of this humoric epic, the Germans ignominiously wrest defeat from the jaws of victory, and the villagers preserve their vino for the postwar American market. Crichton tells his story with grace, pace, warmth and a wonderful free-reeling wit that skips among the vineyards like an inebriated billygoat. The book should make a dandy movie...
...Western Europe and the Mediterranean have lately been afflicted with a phenomenon familiar to the U.S.: the beatnik. Unwashed, unshaven, unregenerate, clad in turtleneck sweatshirt, Levi's and sandals, the European variety is often armed with a tin cup and either a guitar or colored chalks to wrest pennies for wine and smokes from sidewalk patrons. Britons, who tend to consider eccentrics national assets, regard their beatniks with tolerant amusement. Charles de Gaulle's police have been trying, with scant success, to shoo them out of newly scrubbed Paris. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is truly outraged, for the happy...