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...Aquino does return to the Philippines, his stop in the U.S. will be just another postcard visit in a career that has taken him all over the world. Born November 27, 1932, he started his professional life as a reporter, covering the Korean War for the Mani la Times ("Those Koreans, they're tough"). He then went to Southeast Asia, covering Vietnam for a couple of years, before becoming the paper's foreign affairs editor. He entered politics as a speech-writer for President Magsaysay...
...most macabre, this law-and-order sentiment has crystallized as scattered nostalgia for Stalin. Postcard-size photographs of the dictator sometimes decorate the windshields of trucks and taxis. Seeing Stalin's picture in a book, over...
...spending. By contrast, personnel costs devour 53.4% of the $131 billion U.S. military budget. Moscow's source of cheap manpower: conscription. Every Soviet male must register with his local draft board at age 17. A year later, under the Universal Military Service Law of 1967, he receives an official postcard that simply states, "You are urged to appear" at an induction center. Those who fail to do so without a legitimate excuse are subject to arrest and face up to ten years of hard labor. Understandably, draft dodging is very rare...
...Passion zahlt's" (The Passion will pay for it), people like to say in Oberammergau. And, indeed, the famous Oberammergau Passion Play, first performed in the picture-postcard Bavarian hamlet back in 1634, has kept the local economy humming for much of the 20th century. It is a six-hour production, put on for a four-month run every ten years with a cast of 800. A quarter of the town (pop. 4,800) takes part, working as stagehands, orchestra members, singing away in the huge chorus, or milling about as Roman soldiers or members of Jewish crowds. Many...
Seconds after his shouted message, a stupendous explosion of trapped gases, generating about 500 times the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, blew the entire top off Mount St. Helens. In a single burst St. Helens was transformed from a postcard-symmetrical cone 9,677 ft. high to an ugly flattop 1,300 ft. lower...