The sidewalks of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, are coated in a patinaed collage of melted ice cream. The shores of its glistening lakes, once the sites of large hotels, motels, and cottages, are lined ...

Texas Corp.’s Chairman Torkild Rieber likes to do things with a minimum of publicity, a maximum of purpose. Last spring the Norwegian-born onetime shipmaster bought from the Mellons’ Gulf Oil the ...

FOR stories of sinister violence, of ruthless and blood-curdling villainy, there are two spots of the globe especially favored by the movies. One is that region east of Suez: the islands of the Indian ...

A CORPULENT musical entitled “Christine,” as slow of tread as of wit, lumbered last week onto the stage of the Forty-sixth Street Theatre. The task of throwing the book at it is not one that I ...

Many in the West were stunned at the spectacle last week in Beijing as Saudi Arabia and Iran announced they had agreed to reestablish relations and exchange ambassadors — and that the détente had been ...

The countries just east of Suez -- Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan -- are in an unstable relationship. And their neighbors -- Saudi Arabia with its uncertain future, and Iraq where we have promoted ...