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...Kweilin, southwest China's poetic wonderland of rivers, caves and mountains, mourning meant memorial meetings and work. Long lines of students one day walked sobbing along the main street of Kweilin with white paper wreaths for Chairman Mao. They were followed by peasants hauling grass and fodder on bamboo yokes, while motorized carts filled with building stones and charcoal lined the road. Construction is the watchword...
Three white men wearing nylon stocking masks leaped out, one of them waving two guns, and ordered Ray to stop. Two of them boarded the bus, drove it into Berenda Slough, a dry ditch off the road, and steered it into a thicket of bamboo. The gunmen then herded the driver and the 26 children-aged 5 to 14-into two vans. When that was done, the three men drove off with their terrified captives. Thus began a bizarre and, at week's end, still unexplained kidnaping that riveted the nation's attention for 36 hours...
...game. Another notable golfing afficionado was a British army captain named Joseph Cambell, who had his humble origins as a caddy in Glasgow. Cambell was commanding the British stockade in the Bahamas when he got a craving for the links. He set to work fashioning makeshift clubs out of bamboo saplings and used knots of the native lignum vitae tree to mold golf balls. Cambell laid out a course on the parade grounds below Nassau, and gold was born in the New World...
...They peaked maybe ten months ago. It was all over about three months ago." We are sitting in a small anteroom towards the front of the club where they serve a limited menu of hot foot. No one is here to eat and all the high-backed bamboo chairs are empty. A young couple, the man in aqua double knits and the woman in a gay flowered dress, walk by, giggling. Morgan rolls his eyes and turns to me, "Let's face it, all the turkeys come to discos now." The aqua man slides a nip at the flowered girl...
...Boris Aronson, one with painting (he will soon hold his tenth one-man show), and the other with the prints and toys of Japan. To prepare for Overtures, Boris collected Japanese kites (a large black kite is used on the opening curtain). He studied the way Japanese wrap things; bamboo structures, for example, are held together by wrapping them in reeds or rattan. He also collected Japanese fans and Japanese prints of Perry's warships. In his cliffside home overlooking the Hudson River located near the town of Nyack, N.Y., Aronson's study is filled with hundreds...