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...saga of the Doo Dahs is a succession of polyptychs that Graham somewhat grandly refers to as his "living canvases." "I call it Doo Dah art as a takeoff on Dada art," he says. "I didn't set out to create an art form, although I think it has become one." What he did set out to do was to "inject vitality and fun onto the national scene after the dark years of war and scandal...
...Kennedy Airport's long runways along Jamaica Bay in Queens, visibility was two miles, the ceiling 5,000 ft.-both-well beyond landing and takeoff minimums. The arcs of lightning, terrifying to many air travelers, caused little concern among the air-wise. Lightning slips routinely off the skins of modern air: craft, rarely impairing vital controls or igniting the well-protected fuel tanks. J.F.K.'s radar picked up the thunderstorm's ominous hook-shaped rain cells. Rain itself poses no unusual problem for pilots. Yet real dangers lurked invisibly in this storm's particular pattern...
Industrial Takeoff. The greatest obstacle to Kim is the strength of South Korea itself. In the quarter century since the last war, Seoul has, except for airpower, reversed the military situation that existed in 1950 when Pyongyang had superior forces. The South has also surpassed the North in virtually every other aspect of life, especially the economy. South Korea has sustained one of the highest annual growth rates in the world-10%-since 1964. That is a long way from the days just after the Korean War, when the primitive rice-growing economy was shattered and the population...
Today Korea seems ready for a genuine industrial takeoff. Factory chimneys and television aerials crowd the skylines of industrial areas like Suwon, Chonan, Taegu and Inchon. Mountains of West Virginia coal are piled up at Pohang on the southeast coast, where 10,000 employees are producing steel or building plants for what will be the world's largest integrated steelworks. Farther south at Ulsan, the rocky coastline is broken by the giant hulls of 230,000-ton supertankers taking shape at ultramodern yards. South Korea's G.N.P., $17.2 billion, is about the same as Greece...
Stretching the Legs. The Sixth Fleet also boasts amphibious forces, which can land 2,000 combat Marines supported by helicopters and vertical-takeoff harrier planes from small mobile carriers like the Guam. Every two months or so, the landing force "stretches its legs" with an amphibious exercise in Spain or Sardinia...