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Along with all the diversions, Camp David also provides?at the bottom of an elevator shaft sunk 100 ft. into the mountain???a fortress where the President could repair in time of war. Even in peaceful times, security is tight. Rifle-bearing Marines keep watch behind a double row of barbed-wire-topped fences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Camp David: A Palatial Retreat | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...MAGIC MOUNTAIN???Thomas Mann?Knopf (2 vol. $6). "An unassuming young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit," Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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