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...classic encounter. Restless, acquisitive men of iron, canvas and hemp confronted a communal society of bone, skins and thong. The outcome, too, was familiar. Skilled at catching birds in nets, the Inuit themselves were about to be scooped up in the cash nexus. A hitherto unknown clock was imposed on the culture, and its days were numbered...
...under arrest for smuggling, possession of weapons and insurgency," shouted Colonel Thong-Aun Charoen-sam. "Lay down your guns and surrender...
Colonel George Robertson, who commanded the Infantry Brigade of the Riverine Force on the Giao Thong the night of Compella's death, is retired at Sea Island, Ga., living gently off his pension and his wife's inheritance. His mind is free to pursue W.H. Auden and Thomas Love Peacock, but his soul, forged at West Point, still hears distant thunder. "Leadership is never good when it is self-conscious," he says. "The President should respond instinctively to events -but the instinct is really educated intellection, and it has to be harnessed to a natural appetite for decision...
...proof of thermometer power, just wander down by the Charles River. Try February 3 first. It's a desolate, Siberian sight if ever there was one. But then, for purposes of comparison, take another walk on one of the few thong-sandal April afternoons. You will see literally dozens, perhaps even hundreds of students ardently trying to live up to the image the outsiders have stuck them with. They are there with stacks of books, pen and paper, lecture notes. Some even go so far as to come fully attired, as if to punish themselves for wandering from the hallowed...
Since the czars of haute couture took over the swimsuit business, the world's girl watchers have zeroed in on the Diaper, the Thong, the String, the Monokini and now the Maillot. Unlike dryland, drawing-room fashion, which seeks to conceal and suggest, wisps for sun and surf can only show and tell. Therefore they are limited to a very few Gorgeous Girls who really have no need to advertise. En tout cas, as they say in Saint-Tropez, the GGs this summer can be seen supporting (barely) bikinis in stripes, or strapless, or black and white...