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...painter, he held, "prefers to beautify." But the draftsman, who works with the more wiry stuff of line, "practices a form of criticism with his scratching." The man with the pen "looks perpetually at the unfilled holes, the yearned for and the barely attainable; his is a personal coming to terms with a world of irreconcilable powers. The painter bodies forth optimism ... the draftsman cannot escape his more negative vision, beyond appearances." So Klinger the painter moved sedately between a professorship in Leipzig and his country vineyard, turning out the portraits and allegories his patrons sought, and ignoring the obsessions...
Once upon a time, even after the idyllic years of Anna and the King, Thailand was a faraway paradise called Siam. Its marketplaces floated on canals, and its rice fields stretched to the horizon. When someone felt troubled, his friends were likely to tell him, "Mai pen rai," which means, "Well, never mind...
...softening demand for some of its main export items, including tin and rubber. Rice exports, the mainstay of the economy, have been especially poor, largely because Asia's "green revolution" has made rice producers out of countries that formerly were importers. Thailand, under the spell of Mai pen rai and the war boom, failed to diversify its economy. In consequence, the country has a bulging rice stockpile and growing trade deficit...
Needless Delay. Still, the attitude of Mai pen rai persists, and it is not confined to businessmen. In June, Conoco Oil sank a test well in the Gulf of Siam to see if reports of oil sources there were accurate. A discovery could help revive the Thai economy, but the government's cumbersome bureaucracy barely seems interested. It has delayed interminably in setting regulations for offshore drilling, and other oil companies are unwilling to commit capital without them. As a result, portable oil rigs, which were destined earlier for Thai offshore exploration, have now been moved to other potential...
TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler last week talked with Chug Utter, a Nevada mustanger who in 20 years has "gathered" 40,000 wild horses, and in whose pen Rocky awaits his fate. Chug remembers flying over wild herds in a light plane and using a "four-ten sawed-off shotgun just to spook 'em. We also used an electric shocking machine, but we didn't harm 'em. That's all poppycock." Anyway, says Chug philosophically, "there's only one end to being a horse, whether he's a champion race horse or a plug...