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...ancient calendar of Egypt's Coptic Church, this is the Christmas season--and President Hosni Mubarak, a Muslim, had a present last week for his Christian community. He released Pope Shenouda III, 61, from a three-year- long house arrest and allowed him to resume his duties as spiritual leader of the Copts, the largest Christian group (6 million) in any Arab nation...
...happen. By now the tension had reached its peak. "I always had the feeling," he recalls, "that at any second something would erupt." Foremost in his mind was the realization that at Munich in 1972 the Israeli athletes had not been seized until the tenth day. "I carried a calendar around in the center of my skull," he says. Crises, small and large, occurred by the hour. The man Ueberroth had picked to climb the towering steps of the Coliseum to light the Olympic flame, former Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, developed shin splints. Three times Ueberroth was told Johnson could...
Other professional sports may spread throughout the calendar, but to baseball there is still a season. While waiting, bereft, for it to begin again, the true fan will find no brighter winter solace than Base ball (Abrams; 160 pages; $35). The 133 color shots by former SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Photographer Walter looss Jr. catch all the right action, from Maury Wills airborne on the way to second to Nolan Ryan throwing smoke. But in many ways the photographs are more striking when they turn aside to the game's quieter images...
Borrowing from the book business, both B. Dalton and Waldenbooks issue weekly bestseller lists for calendars. Topping last week's Dalton chart: The Teddy Bear Calendar (Workman). Its well-mannered bears at play will likely sell out the 390,000-copy printing. One reason: a contest that allows ursophiles to submit pictures of their own Teddies, which may be selected for inclusion in the '86 edition. Calendars of pinups and pine trees are favorites on everybody's list. The poster-size Sports Illustrated 's Swimsuit Calendar, featuring supermodels in torrid Caribbean settings, is third on Waldenbooks...
...most recent calendar rage, however, has virtually no pictures at all. The fat little memo-pad-style, day-at-a-time calendars work on words. At least half a dozen companies produce a variety of them, including one called Murphy's Law (Price/Stern/Sloan) and others for sports trivia, Bible verses, computer terms, astrological signs and even dirty jokes. The 365 new-words-a-year calendar (Workman) made both lists, with offerings like "Dionysian . . . recklessly uninhibited; frenzied." The success is in the format, says Publisher Peter Workman. "Each day they entertain, surprise and educate, like books you can savor piece...