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...001st anniversary of the fabled stupa of Tat Phnom, a gilt-gabled temple wherein reposes one of the Lord Buddha's ribs. The quiet country town of Tat Phnom, set on the banks of the Mekong River, was alive with revelry. Shapely Thai strippers wriggled through their acts while giggling Buddhist monks and greasy-haired village sharpies looked on. A magician sawed a girl in half. Sarong-clad farmers swilled down rice whisky, then took their turns at the local brothel. But the most unusual attraction in Tat Phnom last week was a network of foxholes from which...
Here, rather than in China, Buddha grew to his tallest: a 175-ft.-high statue hewn from a sandstone cliff in the Afghan valley of Bamian-a display of gigantism inherited more from the colossal marble Caesars of Rome than from the subtler Orient. It was also in this Eurasian melting pot that Buddha acquired his characteristic togalike robe, borrowed from Rome. Likewise Hercules (opposite) holds the hero's traditional club, but his head is crowned with Serapis' sacred basket of mysteries, symbolizing the Nile's fertility...
...hour-long Meet the Press session that was transmitted by Early Bird satellite. Four times he went up to Capitol Hill for hearings on the war, and despite his well-deserved reputation for wizardry at handling Congressmen, some of the sessions were so grueling that even Buddha-faced Rusk came out looking haggard and upset. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark after the Foreign Relations Committee had kept Rusk on the griddle for three hours: "The poor guy had a pretty hard time between the hawks and the doves. I don't know who gave...
...Schlesinger relates it, Kennedy had grown "increasingly depressed by [Rusk's] reluctance to decide." In meeting after meeting, "Rusk would sit quietly by, with his Buddha-like face and half-smile, often leaving it to [McGeorge] Bundy or to the President himself to assert the diplomatic interest." By the autumn of 1963, Schlesinger declares, "the President had reluctantly made up his mind to allow Rusk to leave after the 1964 election and to seek a new Secretary of State...
...considered Viet Nam his own "great failure" in foreign policy because "he had never really given it his full attention." Schlesinger simply had no way of knowing of all the hours that the President spent on the problem, Rusk has told friends. As for the report of Rusk sitting Buddha-like at White House meetings that