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...years Russia has tried to bully the U.N. into admitting Outer Mongolia, its oldest satellite. Wedged between Russia and Red China, Outer Mongolia is an Alaska-sized territory of 1,000,000 nomadic people; hide-covered tent villages still dot the high plateaus, and the country still depends economically on its 21 million head of horses, camels, yaks and sheep. Led by the U.S. and Nationalist China, the West has always been able to block the admission of Outer Mongolia to the U.N. on the grounds that it was not an independent nation, but since 1924 a Russian puppet...
...dancing and feasting in Abidjan, where a brand-new presidential palace gleamed in marble glory above cool fountains and wide terraces. There, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, made some sort of diplomatic fashion history by appearing in cutaway coat and green polka-dot bow tie. There, too, Bobby announced the U.S. gift to Houphouet-Boigny of a beige, two-engined Aero Commander plane. (The Ivory Coast's President is scared of flying, but he appreciated the sentiment.) Bobby, Ethel and their entourage watched bare-breasted girls performing a "Dance of Joy" under...
...condition was quickly fulfilled. Calling the foreign press corps to his home, Premier Joseph Ileo produced the grinning prisoner in a striped charcoal-grey suit and green polka-dot tie. Tshombe promptly took the floor. After two months under guard, he seemed a changed man. Gone was his anger at his captors; gone, too, was all the talk of Katanga as a separate nation. "Katanga has always wanted to collaborate with the rest of its brethren in the Congo," he said, as if he had always felt that way. "Katanga is an industrial province. It needs customers. Building customs barriers...
Boston is moribund. Sad, but true, the better part of Boston lies in the past. The city is a mausoleum--mighty and serene. One could spend hours reciting the mortuary charms of its innumerable cemeteries, with their illustrious dead, which dot the city's main sections as well as its periphery. The flight of industry to the South, the corruption of local politics, and the exodus of the Best People into the suburbs have decisively doomed Boston. But the ashes of a greatness that is gone remain to beguile and delight the summer visitor...
...improbable. Although Gulf Coast residents have long had access to water, most other Texans until fairly recently have not been able to find enough water to skip a stone. But in the past 20 years, government dams and flood-control projects have created scores of man-made lakes that dot Texas' parched and sweltering flatlands (there are only about half a dozen natural lakes in Texas). Because of Texas' excellent, uncrowded highways, distance is no object. One industrialist trailed his cabin cruiser behind his car on a 1,000-mile business trip so that he could...