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...Thailand the TIME group was received by King Bhumibol Adulyadej at his Bangkok palace, surrounded by green lawns and hedges neatly fashioned into the shapes of elephants, alligators and birds. In the Gomain Room (so named for a red precious stone, said to be clearer than a ruby), the King spoke of the closeness of Thai-U.S. relations. Then he showed the visitors some of his canvases-the monarch is a dedicated amateur painter. The pictures included one showing a blur of writhing demons in browns, greens and reds titled Subversion...
...Slight Ache lasts longer but makes its point quicker and clearer. Edward and Flora, a husband and wife, are enjoying a sunlit view of their country-house garden. He (Henderson Forsythe) is a scholar of distant cultures. She (Frances Sternhagen) is a busy suburban bee. Edward is obsessively irked by a human blight just beyond the garden, an aged, decrepit match-seller who haunts the forsaken site from dawn to dusk with no prospect of selling matches. Edward invites the old man into the house to have it out with him. The matchseller looks like a cross between a Skid...
...fire by an intemperate attack upon the Rev. Martin Luther King, he last week agreed to King's suggestion that the two talk over their differences. The 70-minute meeting in Hoover's Washington office seemed to cool the controversy and, reported King, led to "a much clearer understanding on both sides...
...strike has had a curious reaction: each passing week made it clearer that Detroit was not only able to get along without its main papers; it did not even seem to miss them. Instead of mourning the loss of important advertising outlets, the city's merchants have merely increased their ad budgets in the suburban press. Department-store sales for August-September are up by 15% over the same months a year ago. Allied Theaters, an association of movie houses, which might once have regarded newspaper ads as vital crowd-collectors, reported its best summer...
...other student poems are generally clearer, but so slight as to be almost non-existent. The sentence, "The bright sun of dance makes no/moon of him, he receives the light/an asteroid past Pluto," which appears in Gavin Borden's "Marriage," must rank as the least happy of the issue...