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...more than half a mile, hundreds of thousands of frigate birds, which use Aldabra as their major Indian Ocean nesting site, blot out the rays of the sun. Thousands of rare giant land tortoises, some 4-ft. across and weighing as much as 600 Ibs., creep across the pitted coral and ridged limestone surface of the island. Tiny flightless rails nestle amidst Aldabra's bushy scrub and mangrove forests, while above them swoop red-footed boobies, sacred ibises and fruit-eating bats. Twenty of the island's plant species are nonexistent elsewhere in the world...
...around them on spiky legs is an asymmetric network of 43 piers, a black behemoth, 45 ft. long, 33 ft. wide and 22 ft. high. Its thrusting structure wars against the gallery's Doric columns, seemingly pushing them aside to create its own hypnotic environment like some underwater coral growth...
Flying through cloud-laden skies that signaled the approaching monsoons, Navy attack planes from the carriers Oriskany and Coral Sea rained bombs and missiles for the first time on the port of Cam Pha, which is only 46 miles northeast of Haiphong and serves as its auxiliary port. Under congressional pressure to hit North Viet Nam harder, President Johnson gave the go-ahead to bomb Cam Pha when no ships were at the piers, thus seeking to avoid hitting any Russian vessels. After Navy scouts found the right moment, the raiders demolished Cam Pha's wharves, badly damaged...
...entertainment center. Last week, lured by the publicity value of such a venture, Honolulu bid to get the larger Queen Elizabeth next year when she is taken out of service for similar reasons. The world's largest passenger ship, in an unlikely ending, would be set atop a coral reef overlooking Waikiki Beach...
Died. Robert King High, 43, mayor of Miami since 1957 and unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Florida's governorship last year; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables. A scrappy Tennessee-born lawyer, High asserted strong leadership in what is a largely ceremonial post (an administrator runs day-to-day operations), easing racial tensions by organizing a civic panel to hear Negro job grievances and working effectively to resettle over 100,000 exiles from Castro's Cuba. Last year he defeated incumbent Governor Hayden Burns in a gloves-off primary fight, but did not have the muscle to match...