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...summer residence of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet and Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra. The theater itself, designed by Manhattan's Vollmer Associates, is one of the world's largest, seating up to 5,100 inside and another 7,000 outside. People who perch on the upward-sloping lawns pay $2 each, get an unobstructed view of the stage...
...educated epicure in the country today has his favorite Delikatessen, whose virtues he will describe in endless, lip-smacking detail. Dallmayr's, a dim, medieval-style emporium with vaulted arches, displays its caviar and Japanese shrimp on cracked ice (artfully hiding its modern refrigeration equipment), while live carp, perch, pike and rainbow trout swim in ornate marble fountains. Hamburg's 150-year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked the same day in Paris-and, of all things, Heinz cream-of-mushroom soup. Rollenhagen...
...tung's chilling philosophy is that "all political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The gun that ensures his control is held by the Chinese Communist Party apparatus, whose 19 million members make up the largest of all national Communist parties. At its apex perch Mao and his top comrades in a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee; beneath them are a twelve-member Politburo, then 94 Central Committeemen. From there the party descends into tens of thousands of local branches whose vigilance reaches into every city block and every village hut. This pervasive network controls...
Precarious Perch. Late in February, when the final information from Palo mares had been processed by the computers, Sandia scientists traced a square on a Spanish coastal chart and said, "Tell Alvin (the deep-diving research submarine that eventually found the bomb) to look here." Three weeks later, when the little sub finally located the missing bomb-2,500 feet below the surface, still shrouded in its parachute and perched precariously on a 70° slope-it was 1,200 yards from the final coordinates calculated in a laboratory over 5,000 miles away...
...private Peace Corps. Their primary job is to develop a community spirit in the barrios (slums) and to stimulate the habit of self-help. What complicates their task is the numbing sense of futility bred by the sprawling poverty. In Caracas, for instance, innumerable tin and cardboard huts perch uncertainly on the scenic hillsides. They are put up overnight and house hundreds of thousands of peasants who flood the city seeking work and a better life. They find neither. Few make more than two hundred dollars a day, a third of which they spend on water, hosed into mud-caked...