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...stop the Russian airlifts. The one shred of legality to which the Russians cling is that the supplies were requested by the neutralist government of Premier Souvanna Phouma, who was put in power by Kong Le and is still recognized by the Russians, though he is now surf-bathing in comfortable exile in Cambodia. To end this charade, the U.S. flew National Assembly members to Vientiane from all over Laos last week to vote the Boun Oum government into office. All 41 legislators voted approval (the rest of the 59-man Assembly could not be found). King Savang Vatthana gathered...
...University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate with a thesis on the physics of hearing. With his trusty, ever-present sound-level meter, Knudsen tours the world, makes surprising discoveries. He once measured a noise level of 90 decibels* at a U.C.L.A. faculty tea. In the surf at Santa Monica, he registered a 3-ft. breaker at 80 decibels from a distance of 50 ft., and noted that the high-pitched, cracking noise made by shrimp often climbed to 90 decibels. He unromantically recorded a measurement of 92 decibels on the trail near the bottom of Niagara Falls...
Back in Palm Beach, Jack Kennedy busied himself with some thick reports on the state of the nation and the world, received a parade of guests, and relaxed in the sun and the surf when he found the time...
...statement about Gabriele D'Annunzio is an understatement. Poets these days tend to be an almost muted species haunted by the dread that they may be understood by nonpractitioners of their private art. They do not. as did D'Annunzio. ride naked on horseback into the surf and don a purple cloak as a bathrobe, or drink wine from a virgin's skull...
...where mobs of merchant "mammies" screamed "Akwaaba" (welcome) and jovially spread bright kente cloth on the streets for the Macmillans to walk on. Showered with gifts, Macmillan gingerly examined a preferred smoked fish, retorting, "What, no chips?" Natty in a grey tropical suit, the Prime Minister even mounted a surf craft to be paddled briefly out to sea by a team of Accra's skillful boatmen...