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...asphalt boulevards are supplanting the ancient, lettuce-clogged klongs-the canals where Thais still fish, drink, bathe and eat the lettuce. Venerable Siamese villas with cupolas like bowler hats squat cheek by jowl with neon-lit bars, cinemas and boxing pits. The jet age has made Bangkok the air hub of southern Asia, the halfway house for round-the-world trippers from the U.S. It is also rest and recreation for a carefully regulated 500 G.I.s at a time, on leave from Viet Nam. Some float down the Chao Phraya to visit Bangkok's Floating Market...
...holding a fly in his hand, answered calmly: "People always were stupid and always will be. More interesting is what I have just discovered-that a fly uses his hind legs to drive his flight." It is still interesting to learn about nature's miracles of nature. RUDOLF HUB Lima, Peru...
...Hall is in an untenable geographical position. It rests at the hub of what is, in essence, an entirely new part of the Harvard campus. In the foreseeable future, it will be virtually surrounded by newer, more modern, buildings. Already William James sits at one corner of the Mem Hall triangle, and all along the other sides, more buildings will be constructed by the end of the decade...
...your draft board's breathing down our neck, you can go talk about it -- and maybe even sing about it -- at the Hub 47 Sunday...
...Green Stamps to make a hefty down payment on a private plane for Jones. Heading the stamp drive is Jones's wife, Syble, high priestess of the Klan's women's auxiliary in nearby Salisbury. At Klan klatsches, Syble reminds the white-robed sisters that hub by and his Klan kohorts could do much more for the cause if they had wings-and then asks the ladies to hand over their stamp books...