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...Kalb News has some 6,000 "associate editors"-all of whom paid $2 for the title, and many of whom submit stories to the paper. In Topsfield, Mass., the local school bus driver, an energetic amateur photographer, snaps all the pictures for Topsfield's giveaway paper, the Tri-Town Transcript...
Shops reopened, repairmen restrung power lines blown down by battle, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks emerged from jail or hiding (among them: top Buddhist Thich Tri Quang, who had sought asylum ten weeks ago in the U.S. embassy). At Xa Loi Pagoda, principal scene of last August's government crackdown, thousands prayed. From Poulo Condore prison island and other jails, 150 political prisoners were freed, telling bitter tales of torture...
...still under police surveillance, and avoided a third where a demonstration was feared. So far the visitors have met only government-approved monks, and none of those in jail. Facing a ticklish diplomatic problem, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge decided that the fact finders could interview Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang, one of three monks who took refuge in the embassy-if the Diem government had no objection...
...public power and of the mushrooming U.S.-financed space-age industries. The missile city of Huntsville, with its glistening new office buildings is the jewel of the valley area. During the decade of the '50s, it almost quintupled in population, now approaches 100,000. West of Huntsville, the tri-cities complex of Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia is bursting with new heavy industry, while southeast is Guntersville, a thriving resort area that features fine fishing, sailing and impressive scenery. There, too, along the Tennessee River, is a splendid rolling countryside and good red earth that produces much of Alabama...
...temperature rises in Cambridge and the weeks go by, members of the Seminar do not view things American with their initial enthusiasm. At the same time they begin to feel less satisfied with their tri-weekly study sessions of American cultural developments, politics and economics. The program is designed to strike a balance between open discussion with papers read by seminarists, and lectures...