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...main island, has bought the hideaway for an undisclosed sum, promises to "keep it as it is." That's not quite what will happen to Franklin D. Roosevelt's old 165-ft. yacht Potomac. Up for auction, the vessel which the wartime President called his "Shangri-La," went for $55,000 to none other than Elvis Presley. Did that mean the Potomac would soon be rock 'n' rolling to guitars as well as waves? No, said Elvis. It goes to the F.D.R.-founded March of Dimes to be used as the foundation sees...
During recent years. Pennsylvania-born Frank Buchman lived part of the time in a luxurious Shangri-La at Caux, Switzerland, where two former hotels and a cluster of chalets, overlooking the French Alps and Lake Geneva, had become M.R.A.'s international headquarters. Last week, having lately finished a strenuous session with 850 Moral Re-Armers from all over, he was vacationing at the Black Forest resort town of Freudenstadt. There, one night Frank Buchman suffered a heart attack and died...
Flip the Switch. In this indoor Shangri-La, parents are building themselves a home within a home, including stereo and TV sets, dressing room, extra closet space, fireplace, bar, refrigerator, and perhaps even a small kitchen. One couple does much of its entertaining in the master bedroom, which is decorated like a living room (the beds are made up like studio couches), has a separate entrance. Parental authority is maintained through a master control panel that can turn out lights all over the house and through an intercom system over which parents can give orders-and avoid being answered back...
...decision to send Shangri-La was made by the President during his vacation at Augusta, Ga. after a special meeting of the National Security Council, which weighed intelligence of a heavy buildup of Communist jets, tanks, artillery and small arms in Cuba (TIME, Nov. 14). Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty announced that the Navy would "seek out and prevent any intervention on the part of Communist-directed elements in the internal affairs of Guatemala and Nicaragua through the landing of armed forces or supplies from abroad." As explained by the State Department, this meant that U.S. forces would conduct...
While the orders pinpointed the troubles in Nicaragua and Guatemala (see THE HEMISPHERE), they showed a U.S. firmness toward Castro & Co. that was notably missing in the days before the election. Henceforth, Navy patrol planes will scan the east coast of Central America while the Shangri-La squadron operates in the general area southwest of Cuba. The Boxer Marine unit will continue to conduct exercises in Puerto Rico and send Marines ashore on weekend liberty in friendly Caribbean ports...