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Out on a small patch of prairie last week, Greenfield, Iowa, graduated its 100th high school class. From a fragile start, the procession has gone through 99 years of corn crops, Presidents, wars, droughts, babies and blizzards. Six girls formed the senior class of 1883. They stood up for their...
At each airport the war had swiftly overtaken any trace of civilian life. The camouflaged C-130 cargo planes were dropping like slow-moving drone bees onto the runways, their engines still running as they loaded up for unknown destinations. Despite reports of heavy British bombing of the runway at...
Long before Anna ever met the King of Siam, the monarchs of Thailand traveled their kingdom in resplendent style. As early as the 17th century, European voyagers recorded that a Thai royal tour through the waters of the old imperial capital, Ayutthaya, involved as many as 450 sumptuous teak barges...
There were no such mishaps. Flanked by royal guards dressed in scarlet, black and turquoise uniforms with plumed helmets, King Bhumibol stepped out of his pale yellow Rolls-Royce and boarded the Suphannahongse (Golden Swan), a 15-ton, 148-ft. vessel with a fierce, swanlike prow. Propelled by 54 crimson...
But this Friday is Good Friday-what Gogol called "the fearful day of the death on the Cross within the walls of Jerusalem"-and in Holy Week the city seems to become for a time the center of the world, as it was on the maps of the Middle Ages...