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JAPAN. A striking alignment of the old with the new in Japanese culture: Masayuki Nagare's magnificent hand-carved stone wall encloses motorcycles, microscopes and a model of the world's fastest train; the delicate arts of the tea ceremony and flower arranging take place alongside an impressive array of technological savvy...
...Club on shimmering Keehi Lagoon, left their "classified" folders on the tables while they enjoyed a quick dip. Lieut. General William Westmoreland, the newly designated U.S. military chief in Saigon, gave a virtuoso display on one water ski. During off-hours, Rusk and McNamara relaxed at Felt's flower-decked Makalapa Guest House, while Lodge could be seen sipping coffee in splendid isolation at Waikiki Beach's Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
...seemed properly bucolic to a casual visitor. But not to the natives of the little (pop. 51) Maryland village. Stottlemyer was careful to obey the state law-one farm hand walked in front of the herd and one behind-but the villagers complained that the cows obstructed traffic, trampled flower beds, and left a trail of manure that was not only tracked into houses but sometimes caused children to slip and fall perilously close to passing cars. On their way between barn and pasture, the cows even poked their heads into the village store and let go with a loud...
Traps & Troubles. There are a few flypaper palaces that have the bads and should be noted for it. The Hall of Education is full of plastic flower exhibits and other flotsam that has nought to do with education. The Better Living and Transportation & Travel pavilions are both traps. Their Kafkan walls are lined with booths from which predator salesmen claw for the jugular. The pavilion of American Interiors is only a big furniture showroom that charges 50? admission. The Underground House ($1) is the pavilion of American Interiors six feet under. Hollywood ($1.25) is a stockade full of tacky...
...noon and end at dawn after a night of composition at the piano. He keeps up his composing regimen even on tour, and many recent additions to his enormous output are directly inspired by his travels. The bridge between his early Bird of Paradise and his recent Little African Flower spans more than 1,000 compositions, among them such triumphs as Mood Indigo, Solitude and Black, Brown and Beige-and though his form has expanded radically, his substance has never drifted far from jazz. "Le jazz, c'est moi," the Duke seems to say, and students of his music...