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...pouring in (881 new plants last year alone), and the state's income from manufacturing, farming and construction finally equals the income from its weather-dependent tourist and service industries. Beyond Florida's tawdry nightclubs, neon fagades and kidney-shaped swimming pools lies a new and sustaining domain of factories, fresh communities and solid citizens...
Marriage Revealed. Richard J. Reynolds, 55, playboy heir to a $25 million tobacco (Camel cigarettes) fortune, onetime mayor of Winston-Salem, N.C., and current lord of Sapelo Island, a private domain off Georgia, who spent $10.1 million shedding his other wives; and Anne-marie Schmitt, 31, a pretty Ph.D. from Germany; he for the fourth time, she for the first; aboard a cruise ship in the South China Sea, March...
...Ithaca, to be reunited with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. On the way, he and his men suffered such ordeals as imprisonment by brutish cannibal giants, shipwreck, seduction, famine and feast. Meanwhile, back at the palace, a half-hundred soft civilians squatted on the absent lord's domain, eating and drinking their heads off, seducing the maidservants, insulting the stripling heir, and competing for the honor of consoling the presumed widow. The whole bloody and wonderful business ends when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, first humiliates the suitors in a contest at archery, then slaughters the whole "wolf...
...cosmic." Ceylon: Frances Elizabeth Willis. 60, currently Ambassador to Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador (to Switzerland in 1953), will find in Ceylon another woman who has risen high in a normally male domain: Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgway Bias Bandaranaike, who has exhibited a mind of her own in leading Ceylon down the neutralist path...
...Year's, when the King's elephants are gathered and lectured on good conduct. Many a Frenchman learned to play Laos' unchaperoned game of love, conducted to the music of khen pipes, and one French administrator in southern Laos chopped down all bridges into his domain once a year out of fear that the annual inspection might include an inventory of his concubines. According to British Author Norman Lewis, French officers after a tour of duty in Laos are marked forever after by "gentle, rapt expressions" and a "vaguely dissolute manner...