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Honeymooning this week (see MILESTONES), Siam's music-writing King Phumiphon finally sold five royal compositions (Dream of Love, Falling Rain, 'Tis Sundown, Blue Night and an instrumental interlude) to Michael Todd's Peep Show, a Broadway musical now in production. At first fearful that having part in a Broadway show might impair his royal dignity, Phumiphon was won over when Todd pointed out that Margaret Truman is also a professional musician...
...Toward sundown, Clarence Hahn, a General Electric engineer, came out to the cliff above the beach to call his son. He saw the yellow raft almost a mile out. Hahn phoned the Coast Guard Lifeboat Station and the Cleveland Airport. Parents and neighbors came down to the shore; by then the raft had vanished in the lowering darkness...
...Today, in many countries of the world, the concepts of freedom and self-government are merely vague phrases. They express little to people who are engaged in a desperate struggle with ignorance and poverty ... to men who must work from sunup to sundown merely to keep alive . . . men who cannot read & write ... In their present condition, the immediate benefit of steel plowshares or smallpox vaccinations has more appeal than the abstract ideas of democracy...
...Toward sundown one August day Fairservis began to look for a place to camp, and spotted far in the distance what seemed to be a town. As his jeep-borne party headed toward the spot, more & more mud-brick buildings rose into view above the horizon. Shortly they stood before an imposing ruin whose walls surrounded an area of at least 30 square miles, whose buildings must have housed and served a population...
...army bases. The police detoured all traffic away from Tel Aviv's great synagogue on Allenby Street, while inside, black & white robed rabbis prayed and chanted. In the Tel Aviv area alone some 400 synagogues were filled and in the pious Manshieh quarter no traffic moved after sundown, no pedestrians uncovered their heads and there was no smoking on the streets...