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...other from ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma (who stayed away, but sent his lissome, sari-clad daughter as a delegate). The pro-Western royal Laotian government, on hearing that it would be outnumbered, boycotted the conference-even though a British diplomat in Laos spent all day on a motor scooter trying to track down the Foreign Affairs Secretary and get him to change his mind...
Beneath the platform would be service areas, shops, a concourse, schools. There would be a road on the island, but all motor vehicles, except for fire and police use, would be banned; residents would either walk or take a "Carveyer"-a below-level train. A subway station, bridge and ferry service would provide access to the island. Estimated cost of turning city-owned Welfare Island into "East Island": $450 million, including an undetermined amount for leasing the island...
Coming to the Defense Department from Detroit, where details on next year's models are kept as secret as SAC war plans, Ford Motor Co. President Robert McNamara naturally thought that news is what the public relations staff sees fit to tell reporters. But Detroit is not Washington, and a defense establishment that spends $40 billion of the taxpayers' money each year must necessarily allow a considerable degree of public scrutiny. That lesson is one that Defense Secretary McNamara is still trying to learn...
...Amazon, and watch them shoot poisoned darts. Fly over Victoria Falls. A traveler can subscribe to a sort of Island-of-the-Month Club, called Islands in the Sun, that briefs its members on the latest and the best. Bachelor Party Tours, clipper voyages to the Seven Seas, motor caravans from Singapore to Istanbul, Tramp Trips on freighters where the passenger can rough it for no less money than the cost of a sports-shirt cruise-all have their takers. Says one weary travel agent: "I don't know whether I should be pushing Alaska or selling South Africa...
...Ford Motor Company Fund grants of $1000 each have been awarded to Robert G. Anderson '61-3, of Winthrop House and Minneapolis, Minn., and John R. Williams '63, of Quincy House and Fargo...