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...competitor, Kayali is a master of the art of one-upmanship. During the Boston College meet, in the long jump, BC jumper Amjad Ghori leaped the prodigious distance of 22' 10". From the reaction of the BC fans it was obvious that Ghori had just jumped the longest distance of his life, apparently sewing up first place for the Eagles. His lead, however, lasted until Kayali took his next turn, when he pulled an untouchable 22' 11 1/4" mark, his best jump ever this side of the Atlantic. Kayali then cooly declined his third option; with his first place finish...
...fact is that the current peace activity has made Begin stronger than he ever was before. After an 11 ½-hour debate in the Knesset, one of the longest sessions in memory, Begin won endorsement for his plan by a vote of 64 to 8, with 40 (mostly opposition Labor Party members) abstaining. With that kind of support at home, Begin would be in a position to negotiate from strength-and to make further concessions, if he can be persuaded to do so-when the political and military committees meet this month...
...Syrian-Egyptian reconciliation, President Hafez Assad might have to assent, no matter how much he dislikes the idea of negotiating with Israel. But Assad's position is a delicate one. He belongs to a minority Muslim sect (the Alawites), and his seven-year-old regime is the longest that Syria has managed since 1946. Should he accept...
Life Goes to War: A Picture History of World War II. Edited by David E. Scherman (a Time-Life Television Book/Little, Brown; 304 pages; $19.95). World War II was the longest-running story in the history of LIFE, the magazine that practically invented photojournalism. From the war's prelude in Spain to the Japanese surrender nine years later, the magazine's photographers provided the images that alerted and moved a nation. Many of the pictures have been permanently filed in our imaginations: Robert Capa's famous "moment of death" of a Spanish Republican soldier; the dead Chinese...
...Burt Reynolds is very good, the best he's ever been; he gets three yards on his own. Reynolds made what should be called the best football movie ever in The Longest Yard, and he seems to grow more in every film. I have a suspicion that 30 years from now we may dredge up all those old sunbelt epics like W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, Deliverance, etc., and cherish them the way we do Casablanca now, if maybe for a different reason. For the present, though, Semi-Tough is only semi-good, in the fullest sense of the word...