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...BOATS The corps used 25 vessels throughout the journey. A 26th boat--a custom-designed collapsible iron frame covered with skins--was carried all the way to what is now Montana, where it failed upon hitting the water...
...stay to be more like home." And apparently what people want most is to sleep as well as they do in their own beds. Thus many luxury hotels, such as Loews' Regency Hotel in New York City (below), are rolling out a variety of overnight amenities, such as plush, custom-designed beds, white-noise machines, sleep handbooks, warm milk and cookies, and even pillow menus. The Four Seasons Hotel offers guests five pillow varieties, including buckwheat, feather and hypoallergenic...
...pledge has the comfort of custom about it, and should certainly be preserved. It's too bad the highly dispensable "under God" language cannot be quietly dropped. Fat chance, of course. Still, the ideal solution, I think, would be to render unto Caesar an affirmation of flag and country but to keep God in our hearts, where he belongs, and out of politics. Christ himself was scathing about pharisaical display. Don't try to nationalize the deity; it's a little cheap. The Almighty likes to work on a case-by-case basis anyway. I'm all for patriotism...
...should be, I resolved, after re-molding my custom-made sand lounge chair. My eyes, now covered with sunglasses, were still shut as they were directed towards the sun. My fingers started combing through the sand. My skin, and my friend’s, were both a bit darker. And then our conversation picked up again. We came up with summer resolutions: synchronize our schedules to maximize our dual beach exposure. Catch a boat to Catalina Island. Discover the foothills by hiking. Trade the books we were reading...
...concept of the newsmagazine: to record history by seeing it through its most important personalities. To celebrate 75 years of Person of the Year and to launch a traveling exhibition that will tour the country, TIME and sponsor Scudder Investments threw a party last week at the U.S. Custom House in Manhattan, where we gathered many of the past cover subjects and, in some cases, their descendants. This was one party where you didn't need that photographer who could produce a framed picture of your face in a Person of the Year cover...