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After belittling items, picture and caption re J.F.K.'s senatorial successor, Ben Smith, from the heterogeneous seaport of 25,000 hardy Americans, you conclude that "his sole experience in political office was as a city councilman and mayor of Gloucester." It's to laugh...
...Phoumi. The truculent Russian airdrops convinced the nervous U.S. allies that, if pushed too hard, the Soviets might just be willing to start another Korea, this time using North Vietnamese to do the fighting. Equally weighty advice came from the Pentagon, whose planners found the prospects dismaying. With no seaport, jet airfields or railroad, with only 500 miles of all-weather roads (the main road between Vientiane and the outside world runs along the Mekong, is under water six months of the year), backward Laos is an ideal buffer zone but a terrible battleground...
...Rhubarb. In the ancient, changeless East, Hong Kong is remarkable for youth. When it was founded in 1841, Chicago was already a city, and New Orleans had been an important seaport for more than a century. Hong Kong's difficult birth resulted from a clash of wills between Britain's eager merchants and the mandarin aloofness of the Manchu court. The West desperately wanted the tea and silk of China; China wanted chiefly to be left alone...
Except for a few excursions into Brussels, he mostly spent his life in the seaport of Ostend, where he was born in 1860. His father, raised in England and Belgium, and Belgian mother indulged him shamelessly. He lasted exactly two years in school, lived in a world of fairy tales, nightmares, the fascinating clutter of his parents' curio shop and an attic that was "full of horrible spiders, shells, old clothing the color of rust and blood, red and white corals, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen...
...whitewashed Groeninge Museum, tucked away behind the gabled houses that line the ancient Dyver Canal, hung the largest show of 15th century Flemish artists ever assembled. It was a nostalgic occasion for the Belgians, for here were all the glories that had been theirs when Bruges was the mightiest seaport in northern Europe and one of the greatest art centers the world had ever seen. But the idea for the exhibit did not originate in Belgium. It came from the seemingly unlikely place called Detroit...