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...Boulder. But viewed against the enormity of South Viet Nam's problems, Khanh-a visibly wearier man than the bouncy
...fellow he was when he took over six months ago-seems like an ant struggling with a boulder. "All he needs," says an American adviser, "is some competent administration at lower levels"-and this is precisely what Khanh lacks. In a land where colonial France deliberately restricted the Vietnamese participation in government (the French even posted their own traffic cops in Saigon), Viet Nam's civil service is shot through with inefficiency, not to mention graft, favoritism, inexperience, sloth; many ranking military leaders act more like petty politicians than professional soldiers...
...years ago, this barren acreage looked to the unknowing eye like plenty of sun-baked nothing. But ebullient Real Estate Promoter Thomas Darlington and Partner Kenyon T. Palmer, who bought the sand for as little as $100 an acre, saw nuggets in every boulder. Their original 800 acres, broken up into two-acre lots, have all been sold for as much as $10,000 a lot, and 1,600 more acres have been added. Fifty houses have already been built, and three or four more are started each week. The splendor of Carefree's citizenry encourages Promoter Darlington...
...widow had a huge boulder set near his grave. On it, a brass plaque is inscribed with the signature that finished his works. His top price while alive, $10,000, soared ten times higher. Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more like a hungry walrus than like Pollock's. Few ever managed like Pollock to puncture what his favorite author Herman Melville called the "pasteboard mask" of visible reality, to pierce beyond the surface into the reasoning soul of men's minds...
...Colorado Shakespeare Festival, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.: A company of 20 students from colleges in the U S and England perform Measure for Measure, Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing. Through...