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...when Bundy received orders to stand by for a priority message (nature unspecified) from the White House. The two were also supposed to meet at a U.S.-sponsored reception; Khanh sent regrets. Bundy finally did manage to spend an hour with Khanh. What they said to each other remains unknown, but Bundy emerged looking less than enthusiastic. He also met with Khanh's Acting Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Oanh and Chief of State Phan Khac...
Actually, snow blindess is not blindness and isn't caused by snow. Correctly called solar photophthalmia, it is sunburn of the sun's ultraviolet rays off the glistening snow or ice. While generally affecting the unprepared skier, snow blindness is not unknown among mountain climbers, the Eskimos, and even polar bears...
Recently, they formed a partnership to build a ski lodpe at the base of Mt. Ascutney, a new and relatively unknown ski area. Together, they purchased a 150-year-old farm and invested $25,000 into converting it to a dormitory-style lodge with private's rooms. They raised the capital through savings, friends, banks and notes from local businessmen. As late as Nov. 30, they were still spending every free hour they had to tend to the many frustrating details that develop when a "crash" building project is undertaken...
...cause. Many cases of bronchitis are the result of infection, and can be largely relieved, if not actually cured, by treatment with antibacterial drugs. Other cases are relieved by inhaling substances that help to break up the mucous secretions. But emphysema is stubborn. Since its basic causes are still unknown, doctors have as yet no hope of finding a true cure or general preventive. Yet treating its effects is important because emphysema neglected overtaxes the heart in a manner that may cause death...
...Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency of the prize was cut to every two years, but the prize money doubled to $5,000. Now the first poet to win the enriched Bollingen has been announced: the relatively unknown Horace Gregory...