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Among the most valuable national resources of the kingdom of Thailand are its innumerable statues of Buddha; foreign collectors dote on them. A major source of Buddhas is pillage. Every Thai jungle is dotted with temples that are lined with stone Buddhas; robbers knock off the heads-which are the most highly prized parts of the statues-and smuggle them to Bangkok, where the government tolerantly permitted many of them to be exported. Only last month the Bangkok police launched a giant raid on the city's antique shops that showed how far things have gone: 3,500 stolen...
...Whenever there is a political bloat, Mort sticks a pin in it," says Hubert Humphrey. Among his constituents Sahl counts Adlai Stevenson, who sees him regularly when Sahl is in Chicago. Says Adlai: "I dote on him." Sahl contributed a joke bank that John Kennedy drew on for his witty performance at last November's Al Smith Dinner, once discouraged a Nixon worker who approached him for a similar purpose. As for President Eisenhower, he has never heard of Mort Sahl -possibly because the comedian refers to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty as "Ike's right foot." But Sahl...
...English are said to dearly love a lord, and the second Lord Redesdale is there to prove that they dote on a dotty peer-especially if he has six daughters, mostly zany, mostly blonde. An impressive photograph of the six Honorable Misses Freeman-Mitford, in their ironclad British tweeds, appears in this autobiography by one of their number. An industrious, middle-aged newspaper reader with total recall would be able to attempt a quiz about every blessed one of them, roughly thus...
...with strength in all the right places: massive shoulders and arms, a waist hardly big enough to hold his trousers up, thick wrists, and leather-hard, outsized hands that can crumple a beer can as though it were tissue paper. Like baseball buffs, golf fans dote on the long-ball hitter; they pack six deep behind the tee to gasp in admiration as Powerman Palmer unwinds to send a 280-yd. drive down the fairway. Coldly precise in his study of the game, Palmer is anything but stolid during a round: he mutters imprecations to himself, contorts his face, sometimes...
...from being deterred by such formidable monthly fare, readers of Scientific American magazine dote on it, spend an average of four hours and twelve minutes reading each issue, and constantly demand more of the same. This month, without a bit of persuasion from the magazine-which has not invested a dime on circulation promotion this year-circulation climbed to a 114-year high of 250,000. Estimated 1959 gross-$5,000,000-represents a 50% increase over last year, a 4,243% improvement over...