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...about a nondescript gray building next to a children's playground downtown, he was told only that it "belongs to the government." In fact, it is Hoa Lo prison, the notorious "Hanoi Hilton," where captured Americans were held. Today it serves as a jail for common criminals. Another visitor noticed on sale in a shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed]." Our guides unabashedly confessed to listening...
...view of a 19th century visitor to New England, Alexis de Tocqueville, the town meeting was a marvel of "municipal freedom" flourishing in a "semibarbarous" country; he was impressed at how ordinary citizens could gather to settle their affairs with "no distinction of rank." Although the town meeting has been declining for decades-a casualty of increasing population and the complexity of issues-it is still an honored rite of March in hundreds of communities. TIME Senior Correspondent James Bell last week attended the meeting in Huntington, Vt. (pop. 825), a town of merchants, workers and small farmers...
...J.P.L. Director Bruce Murray to consider imaginative concepts for interplanetary exploration. A mission to Halley's comet, which returns every 74 to 79 years, has long been one of NASA's goals. But using conventional space-flight techniques to rendezvous and keep up with the glowing visitor-which reaches speeds of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour as it approaches the sun-would require enormous amounts of fuel and an impractically large and expensive rocket...
...speed of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour-on a course to intercept Halley's comet in March 1986. Jettisoning the sail, and "flying station" just two kilometers above the comet's head, the ship will take TV pictures and readings to determine the visitor's composition and origin. Says J.P.L.'s Murray: "We don't have a clue about comets. The space sailer could help provide some...
...country and now count for nothing inside because people do not want them. Instead, they would rather have scarce butter or a slab of meat or a bottle of waragi, a potent, banana-base liquor. Money is worthless because there is so little to buy with it. The rare visitor from Kenya who brings in Kenya currency, and risks arrest or worse in so doing, can get five shillings for one, even though the two shilling currencies remain officially...