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Halfway around the world, midway between the red mud of Vientiane and the white marble of Washington, in an ugly mustard-colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In a windowless basement room that once served as a hospital morgue, Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), met with his staff for their briefing. Officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines mulled over the latest intelligence reports. Then the little man with the four...
...must" tour is the 20-mile drive from Kowloon through the New Territories to the border with Red China, marked by a barbed-wire fence and a few Communist soldiers in mustard-colored uniforms at the frontier station on the Kowloon-Canton railway. Looking across the border at the blue hills and rounded mountains of China, the tourist feels the mystery of the unknown and unknowable, the amorphous weight of 670 million humans whose purposes and aims remain hidden. His mood is very like that of the 16th century Europeans who first set foot in China and stared with wild...
...community is composed of a group of organisms living together in dynamic equilibrium with the environment." They discovered that the chaparral on the nearby Verdugo Mountains is all that keeps Glendale from being washed away by flood. Studying plants, they found those that best sustain this growth, e.g., black mustard. They analyzed the city water supply, found it pure but dwindling. Armed with petri dishes, they made bacteria counts in restaurants, groceries, the city jail, restrooms and hospitals. They measured noise, nutrition, recreation, garbage disposal-literally everything that helps or hinders man in Glendale...
Jabbing at the G.O.P. claim to greater "experience" in world affairs, Johnson broke into rhetorical questions that dripped sarcasm as a Nathan's Famous drips mustard: "Where is the evidence of their victories and successes in the world we look upon today? Where are the fruits of that maturity and that experience?" In Kennedy's home town of Boston, Johnson seemed to stir far less crowd-pulling curiosity than Cabot Lodge, the Boston Brahmin, on the beaches of Coney...
...became gentlemen heralded by a hawk brandishing a spear, and the motto Non sans Droit (Not Without Right), which Ben Jonson promptly parodied as "Not Without Mustard...