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Last week the glittering ceremony was revived to celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of Thailand's ruling Chakri dynasty. No fewer than 51 of the mammoth regal barges were restored, at a cost of $3.5 million, to transport King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 54, ninth of his line, and his entourage along the Chao Phraya River. For months, 2,180 cadets and officers of the Thai navy had worked strenuously to perfect their oarsmanship. Their main worry: the barges are notoriously unstable, and the slightest mistake could have resulted in a regal dunking...
...wear for Nino Cerruti. It took the considerable persuasive powers of Sergio Galeotti, then 25 and a draftsman in a leading Milan architectural firm, to lure Armani from the kind of early middle-aged complacency he was slipping into. Armani, the second of three children of a transport-company manager in Piacenza, 40 miles southeast of Milan, grew up during World War II and remembers waking up screaming from nightmares about air raids. A childhood like that requires a heavy investment in security, which his parents Ugo and Maria did their best to provide...
...trillion in defense spending that the Reagan Administration plans to lavish on American industry between now and 1987. In addition to at least 130 new combat and support vessels for the Navy, the Administration's shopping list calls for more than 3,900 jet fighters, bombers and transport aircraft, 8,880 tanks and cannon-carrying troop transports and, during the next decade, some 14,000 strategic and tactical bombs and missiles for the nation's nuclear arsenal...
...MBTA Board of Directors on February 4 submitted their recommendation for fare reductions but made it contingent on a huge budget increase. Coughlin said yesterday that the cuts would therefore cost about $7 million. Not surprisingly, the transport system's Advisory Board--composed of representatives of cities and towns--has refused to provide the additional funds, claiming hardship from Proposition 21/2...
...Wednesday morning, Oct. 10, we awoke to the ominous news that some 20 Soviet transport aircraft were on the way to Syria via Hungary and Yugoslavia. An airlift of such magnitude must have been organized for several days...