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With his iron-grey hair, light blue eyes and dimpled chin, Syrian Strongman Amin Hafez, 42, conveys so genial a manner that it is hard to believe he is called the Butcher of Damascus. Last week he once again lived up to that name. Syria was a charnel house. In the midland city of Hama, mothers wailed over the bodies of dead sons, the famed Sultan Mosque lay in ruins, and the corpse of one rebel leader, riddled with 50 bullets, was contemptuously dumped by soldiers from an open jeep onto the sidewalk. The bloody-handed Baath (Renaissance) Party...
...Fountain of the Planets and the Fountains of the Fairs, from the Astral, Solar and Lunar Fountains, the Fountain of the Continents and the Fountains of Progress; it rippled and trickled in numberless lakes, lagoons, canals and reflecting pools. And on opening day it dripped endlessly from the cold, grey clouds that dimmed the visibility of the helicopters and dampened the spirits of the groundlings...
...team's first line of strength lies in its batting. Left fielder Grey Peters leads the squad with an astronomical .714 average: for those who appreciate the complicated mathematics of "slugging" averages, his is a lofty 1.355. In 22 trips to the plate this season, he has reached base 21 times...
...Arturo Illia, 63, an obscure back-country physician, took office in Argentina amid a wave of good will and relief. At the time a foreign diplomat said: "The best thing Dr. Illia could do is to do nothing for six years." That seems to be exactly what the good grey doctor has in mind; he seldom leaves the palace, makes few speeches and fewer decisions. Yet by doing almost nothing, Illia seems to be giving Argentines what they need-a healing peace to recover from the 18 months of military-dominated government and economic confusion that followed the overthrow...
Love affairs have a way of lingering on beyond good sense. In 1956, Investment Banker Cornelius ("Corny") Shields, then 61, suffered a serious heart attack, was advised to give up competitive sailing. But by 1958, "the grey fox of Long Island Sound" had becalmed his doctors and masterminded the Columbia's victory in the America's Cup competition trials. In 1962 he again overruled medical protests to help out in Columbia's unsuccessful bid to be the U.S.'s Cup defender. But now it is over. Last week, acting as executor for the estate...