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¶At Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a first edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America went for $60,000. The four-volume "Elephant Folio," so called for its outsize format, contains 435 plates of U.S. fowl by the naturalist engraver. Only 129 sets are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Highs | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Upping the Ante. It was the first test for the Air Cav's new boss, Major General John Norton, 48, who relieved Harry W. O. Kinnard early this month. Norton, a veteran of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy in World War II, swiftly upped the ante by sending in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Alltime High for Action | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Packing a Lunch. Under Sarit's successor, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, Bhumibol is more than ever the throne behind the power. He and Sirikit, working as a ceremonial team with all the pageantry that Thais love, take every opportunity to identify themselves with Thailand and its progress. Whether it be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Holder of the Kingdom, Strength of the Land | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

After such arduous tasks, the King repairs to his equally strenuous hobbies. Not long ago he built a 13-ft. sailboat and sailed it across the Gulf of Siam, a 16-hour crossing. He was accompanied by a small flotilla escort of the Royal Thai Navy, and a motorboat using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Holder of the Kingdom, Strength of the Land | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Satirizing practically nothing, Up to His Ears sets up shop in Hong Kong, where Belmondo, as the bored-to-death young heir to a knitting-mills fortune, has anchored his yacht and tried to kill himself for the ninth time within a week. Someone suggests that he could turn his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: That Man in Hong Kong | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

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