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Burma's building is shaped like a royal catamaran barge, Hawaii's like a volcano, the Ivory Coast's like elephant tusks. Even the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi has a pavilion-because, the Expo guidebook notes, it "hopes to gain new friends in the...
It was a hot dry-season afternoon. Adjudant-Chef Robert Garros, 34, stopped his Jeep and looked back. A long funnel of dust stretched out behind his platoon's four battered, dun-colored weapons carriers. His 35 legionnaires were tired and filthy, their faces caked with white dust. After...
IN East Africa, that magical land of the Masai, the Mau Mau and the Macombers, February is the middle of summer-and summer is safari season. To many Americans, the word safari (Swahili for journey) still conjures up a vision of Stewart Granger beating bravely through the bush, trailed by...
Hunters of the Ernest Hemingway persuasion, of course, can still arrange an old-fashioned "Big Five" (lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, Cape buffalo) trophy hunt, provided they have the patience and the price. East Africa's top white hunters are so busy that they are already taking advance reservations for...
The bad taste of many ads for detergents, household cleaners and such personal-care items as mouthwashes and hair rinses is generally conceded by most advertising men. Officials of agencies creating these ads explain that such products, because they deal with dirt and unpleasant aspects of life, are difficult to...