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...shoulders. In town, a banner-wielding throng of 7,000 jammed the narrow streets, waving and shouting, "Workers for Victor Paz." "This is an emotional experience for me," Paz told the crowd, and went on with Henderson to snip a ribbon on an Alianza-financed road project, inspect a new water plant and attend a civic banquet. On the flight back to La Paz, the President allowed that "this has been a great...
...Market. Next day, King and Queen boarded their Soviet helicopter, were flown by the Russian crew to Paanchkhal to inspect the 70-mile road being built by Red Chinese engineers from Katmandu to the Tibetan border town of Kodari, where it connects with another highway leading to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Thousands of Nepalese workers using picks, shovels and crow bars are carving the road from the sheer slopes of mist-hung mountain passes. Chinese instructors patiently show the Nepalese how to operate rock drills while other Chinese clear away rocks and dirt with bulldozers; still others are busily surveying...
...decided to begin the rest of our travels by following an overland route to Holyoke Center, where we would inspect the data board, then to travel underground to the river, cross the Charles inside the Weeks Bridge, and finally come up to the surface at the Business School operating station in McCulloch Hall. Mr. Kingsbury wished us well and placed us in the care of another Tunnel engineer, this time a South Yard...
...flew from Manila to Saigon. Amid reports that the Viet Cong might try to assassinate him, he was shepherded around Saigon under strict security measures: four Jeeploads of bodyguards, two armed helicopters. But Rusk ventured out into the countryside, flew to Danhim, 150 miles north of the capital, to inspect a new hydroelectric plant. Everywhere Rusk repeated his theme: that the U.S. disavows neutralism...
...opening of "Three Generations of Wyeths," Jamie looked like a top-form prep-school student taken by his parents to inspect the college. But he is unlike any other 17-year-old in the country. His consuming motive-uncluttered by any profound education or knowledge of the world outside of Chadds Ford-is to paint with realism, humanity and technical brilliance. Unless his fast start proves his undoing, he seems certain to succeed...