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...Outside the coastal city of Hué, a 17-year-old novice Buddhist monk wrapped himself in a kerosene-soaked, six-color Buddhist flag, then struck a match. In the village of Ninh-hoa, 200 miles north of Saigon, a young Buddhist nun sat down in a Catholic school playground and set herself on fire. Less than 24 hours later, back in Hué, a 71-year-old monk announced over the Tudam Pagoda loudspeaker that he was going to kill himself, then burned himself to death in the pagoda's courtyard...
...with another 895 abuilding. In most of the Virgin Islands the summer trade runs only 10% to 15% behind the winter season; St. Thomas' three biggest hotels-the Hilton, Bluebeard's Castle and Caribbean Beach-are all reserved into September. And Jamaica, though famed as a winter playground, now draws almost half its 200,000 yearly visitors during the summer season...
...feet high, containing 337 apartments for a population of 1,600. Designed as a piece of gigantic sculpture, it stands apart in an 11 1/2-acre park. Its seventh and eighth floors form an interior street flanked by small shops. On the roof is a garden with a playground for children and a wandering track for running...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to President Pusey for civic affairs, told the councillors yesterday that Harvard is considering ways to help the City refurbish and maintain the Corporal Burns playground, located next to Dunster House...
...posted around the village. At the rambling estate in Colombey, De Gaulle gets a measure of the family life and relaxation he misses so much in Paris. He reads, walks in his garden, and plays with his four grandchildren, for whose amusement he has installed an elaborate set of playground equipment and a plastic swimming pool...