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...Buddha seem to float over Bangkok scarcely touched by the blare of traffic, the neon slashes of bars and the ragged hurly-burly of mainland Southeast Asia's largest city. So too does the Kingdom of Thailand, proud heir to virtually seven centuries of uninterrupted independence, seem to soar above the roiling troubles of the region all around it. Neighboring Laos is half in Communist hands, Cambodia hapless host to the Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than 100 miles away, North Viet Nam a bare 20 minutes as the U.S. fighter-bombers...
Fountains for Pleasure. By inclination, James Rorimer was equally the scholar, with a liking for privacy, but his position as head of the Met placed him at the epicenter of the museum explosion that saw the Met's attendance during his decade of direction soar to more than 7,000,000 visitors annually. In response, Rorimer turned builder. He added a 150,000-volume art library, reopened 43 newly air-conditioned galleries, expanded exhibition space by 41% to a total of 20 acres. All the while, he had to preside over a staff of 600 and administer a budget...
...Harvard baseball team descends again to the workaday world this weekend after its 27-9 soar into Brandies could-cuckoo land. But the Crimson will land with a thud unless the hitters can scrape up some runs against Columbia today and Army Saturday...
...bets are down: the U.S. is relying more heavily than ever on college education to shape its destiny. To get into college, kids claw for high marks even in grade school. Parents scratch for dollars, plunge into debt. State taxes soar. Yet how the bet comes out depends on solitary teachers in secluded classrooms?and the number of bored, hostile and inadequate college teachers adds up to something between a serious concern and an outright scandal...
...becoming more capacious, skyways are getting more crowded, and the number of passengers-150 million this year-is expanding by 15% annually. Figuring that the number of passenger-miles will multiply 20-fold within 35 years, Bo Lundberg, head of Sweden's Aeronautical Foundation, forecasts that fatalities will soar to an intolerable 10,000 a year unless the accident rate is sharply reduced. It almost surely will be. But there will always be accidents. "If we wanted absolute safety," says Douglas Aircraft Executive Vice President Wellwood Beall, "we'd never get the planes...