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...city of Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet Nam, fighter-bombers blasted six new targets: a Haiphong factory that turns out 95% of the North's cement, the country's biggest rail-repair yard just 2.5 miles from the center of Hanoi, a power transformer seven miles from the capital, a 738-ft. bridge on the Canal des Rapides across which all the traffic from Communist China and 30% of the North's war materiel are conveyed...
CANADIAN histories dutifully record the glum surmise of the 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who sighted Labrador and declared: "This must be the land that God gave Cain." Voltaire dismissed Canada as "a few acres of snow." Canada's massive, historical inferiority complex is without question the biggest in the Western world, a longstanding wonder and delight to analysts of various national psyches. If the U.S. worries about not being liked abroad, Canada worries about not liking itself at home. Hugh MacLennan, one of the country's best-known novelists, writes wryly: "If it be true that...
Ever since Thai Silk King James Thompson vanished without a trace while vacationing in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia (TIME, April 17), his friends have grown increasingly suspicious about the disappearance. The biggest search that the highlands have ever known failed to produce a trace of Thompson. No word of his presence has filtered down from the aborigine villages of the highlands. There has been no sign of Thompson's remains, which would certainly attract birds of prey. Hoping against hope, Thompson's friends have therefore concluded that he may still be alive, the abducted victim of some...
Other nations were more generous. Biggest single donor was the U.S., with a total display of 52 works. The Soviets sent a consignment of 13 works rarely seen outside Russia, including four from the Hermitage. Canada helped fill the Italian void with Piero di Cosimo's Vulcan and Aeolus, part of a group of ten pieces that modestly included only two native Canadians, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas. France obliged with 28 pieces, West Germany with twelve, Japan with ten, Britain with 14, The Netherlands with eight. But some of the most striking contributions came...
...biggest splash of the week, in the end, was provided by one of Berkeley's star exhibitors, Sculptor Peter Voulkos, 43, known as the "daddy of funk." The San Francisco Art Commission voted to adorn the Municipal Hall of Justice with a 24-ft.-high piece of Voulkos sculpture, but the chosen piece hardly looked funky at all. Says Voulkos, "It's pretty open. There's no literal connotation in it." It simply looked like a shiny bronze-and-aluminum convocation of happy-go-lucky boa constrictors, and could be Fernand Leger on a three-dimensional spree...