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After such arduous tasks, the King repairs to his equally strenuous hobbies. Not long ago he built a 13-ft. sailboat and sailed it across the Gulf of Siam, a 16-hour crossing. He was accompanied by a small flotilla escort of the Royal Thai Navy, and a motorboat using a new design of jet propulsion that Bhumibol himself had conceived. His current project: a do-it-yourself helicopter (see MODERN LIVING). Last week, as the King and Queen were enjoying the first of the monsoon rains, breaking the most torrid weather in years, news of the discovery...
...northern port, but the ship's 20-hour run also eliminates 800 miles of driving to get to the panhandle of Alaska. In fact, by continuing northward from Prince Rupert on the three-year-old Alaska Ferry Service, the motorist can escape all but 600 miles of the arduous 2,200-mile drive from the Washington State border to Fairbanks...
When the bill reached the Senate floor, the Democratic leadership had to fight desperately to restore the $12 million. They finally eked out a 46-to-45 victory. The Administration resorted to some arduous logrolling, as with "Operation Igloo" involving Alaska Democrat E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, who was craftily withholding his support for rent subsidies. Just as he hoped, Bartlett suddenly received promises that the Administration would arrange loans for Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians living in Alaska's remote Arctic regions-a pet project on which he had hitherto received not a scintilla of White House encouragement. After voting...
...principle of permitting non-military national service is an old and established one. But few persons are willing to go through the long, arduous process necessary to obtain C.O. classification. The result is that most draft-eligibles, especially college students, actively avoid fulfilling any national service requirement. Because there is no practicable alternative to the draft, students unwilling to fight but otherwise eager to serve their country are placed in the position of rejecting the concept of national service altogether. Moreover, those pacifists who are willing to serve in a peace-time army on the probability that they will never...
...commanded five-figure prices for more than 20 years. Currently, the first comprehensive retrospective of Matisse's work since his death, totaling 345 works in all media, is traveling across the U.S.* The exhibition (see color pages) magnificently highlights his achievement; it also documents what a long, arduous path he followed...