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...Took a trip to the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, which Franklin Roosevelt named Shangri-La and which Eisenhower renamed Camp David in honor of his five-year-old grandson and namesake...
Elephants. Laos, once known as Lane Xang (the Land of a Million Elephants), is the Shangri-La of Southeast Asia. It is mistily mountainous, covered with tiger-haunted jungle and elephant-inhabited rain forest, and can only be reached by air, by traversing two very bad roads, or by sailing up the mighty Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their...
...Eisenhower golfs, is how their respective vacations have interfered with the job of president. Roosevelt had an excellent system for assuring the public and Republicans that his vacations were well spent. He merely labeled Hydc Park the "Summer White House," Palm Springs the "Vacation White House," and said Shangri-La, his Maryland retreat, had the prefect atmosphere for writing important speeches...
Kenya, the "White Man's Shangri-La," is famed for its big game, its purple hills and russet downs. Thirty thousand whites grow much of Britain's coffee in its exclusive White Highlands, rule 5,500,000 blacks and 100,000 Indians with a strong hand, and now live with guns at their sides in fear of the terrorist Mau Mau secret society...
Publication of the CRIMSON casein temporarily today, so the editor can retreat to their private shangri-la high in the Andes and tunnel their efforts into a gargantuan 30-page eightieth anniversary issue. Cambridge's only breakfast table daily will great post-vacationers on January 5 and the anniversary publication to due four days late...