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...Timid Tapirs. Only 4½ hours and $77 from Miami by plane, democratic, relatively peaceful (last revolution: 1938) Costa Rica is a zoologist's and hunters dream. No one ever heard of bag limits, game wardens don't exist, and critters are everywhere. Last month, just ten miles outside-the mountain-circled capital city of San Jose, a farmer' plugged a wild black cat that measured 6½ ft. from nose to tail...
...venture purports to tell the stories that other publications are too timid to print ("Fact will not hesitate to ask 'Where are the emperor's clothes?' "). But apart from a few efforts to live up to its billing, Fact's two issues suggest that the magazine is be coming a dustbin for the Eros leftovers...
...Program. Khanh wants more manpower for several projects-all tall orders and all previously tried in various forms by either the French or Diem. Khanh promises to create "a highly trained guerrilla force that can beat the Viet Cong on its own ground," wants to strengthen the often timid paramilitary forces, such as hamlet militias. He has begun training a corps of civil administrators to rebuild war-shattered local governments. And he proposes to revive and improve Diem's strategic-hamlet program; however, instead of forcing peasants into the armed compounds, Khanh says he will make the program voluntary...
...been "a good, innocent and quite timid boy." And from the age of 14, in 1896, until a year before his death in 1963, Angelo Giuseppe Ron-call i kept a record of his thoughts and dreams on odd pieces of paper. Lovingly edited by his long-time personal secretary, Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Pope John XXIII's diary, titled The Journal of a Soul, was published in Rome. At 15, the Pope-to-be was already praying "more than anything else, for union with the separated churches"; at 21, as a seminarian, he mused: "Even if I were...
...ears intact have not remained untouched. Earring wearing has become much more common, and even non-piercees often sport earrings to class. And, significantly, the latest fashion in earrings is one which looks as though it is for pierced ears, but really screws on to the ears of the timid...