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...notice was publicly posted when four radar picket destroyers escorted the 70-plane carrier Shangri-La southward from Florida into the Caribbean. In response to requests from Guatemala and Nicaragua, said President Eisenhower, the U.S. would maintain a patrol to halt the shipment of arms or volunteers from Castro's Cuba to aid revolutionaries in those Central American countries. The U.S. intention had been less formally asserted weeks before when part of the 8th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1,500 men aboard the assault carrier Boxer and accompanying ships, began conducting training exercises in the Caribbean area...
...grounds of the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital to take the President, Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who dislikes air travel in general and, from his appearance, helicopter travel in particular) to Camp David, the Maryland retreat of Presidents, where Franklin Roosevelt (who called it Shangri-La) met in secrecy with Winston Churchill during World War II. (Harry Truman had no use for the place.) Some lesser lights of the British party, who followed by helicopter and car, grumbled about being tucked away in such sylvan solitude...
...opera scheduled for production at Brussels which he hopes will give him the cash to "pay my personal bills." But his real concern is that the festival will succeed enough to be repeated. If that happens, Spoleto will become what he intended it to be: a kind of artistic Shangri-La, where young U.S. and European artists can retire every year to talk shop and "express themselves freely, unhampered by political creeds or esthetic fashions...
Elizabeth Arden has all this-and then some. She operates two remote Shangri-Las, also called Maine Chance, one in Maine and one near Phoenix, Ariz. (made more famous by Mamie Eisenhower's two-week stay last spring). At the Maine Chances, described by Elizabeth as "magic isles where cares and worries vanish," patrons not only get treatments for their face, figure and hair, but live an austere life that rules out fatty foods and liquor (if they are overweight), involves daily exercise and sports instruction. Cost: from $400 to $600 weekly, depending on accommodations...
Capitalist Shangri-La. Bitter over high taxes, Government interference, the scorn of intellectuals and the reproof of religious leaders, the really tough-minded tycoons gradually withdraw from society to a hideout in the mountains. There, under the leadership of a mysterious physicist named John Gait, they await the fall of the old, Socialist-crippled, soft and degenerate order, so they can build a new society. The mountain-ringed capitalist Shangri-La sounds like a prospectus for an exclusive, upper-middle-class suburb in Westchester, and is dominated by a slim granite column upholding a solid-gold dollar sign. (Readers...