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Uncoiling through the silver mist...
Above the mist a gull's faint crying...
...have no special competence to judge pictures, but only a few in this book (the lonely freshman crossing the Yard, the Weld boathouse in mist, Aggrey Awori jumping, and the extraordinary portraits of James Baldwin, Joe Russin, and A. Weil) struck me as exceptional. On examination, the nine pictures in the opening section "November 22, 1963" capture the grief of the moment only because of the headlines in two of them; otherwise, they simply show inarticulately a depression that does not point to anything. The rest of the pictures are standard and boring. Perhaps they are our images of Harvard...
...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 and mapping every hill and valley in a country ideally suited to guerrilla...
...Pitied Them." The President was in New York again two days later, this time flying through mist and fog to help open the World's Fair (see MODERN LIVING). His security men, expecting massive and bitter civil rights demonstrations, had 2,000 New York policemen and 3,000 Pinkerton guards on hand for extra protection. At the Singer Bowl stadium on the fairgrounds, Johnson sloshed through inch-deep puddles of water, made a short speech to a bedraggled crowd of 10,000, then rode to the U.S. pavilion for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. There, the trouble began...