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...just the money that attracts them. "I believe in this technical assistance," says Marvin Belew of Centerville, Tenn., 53, a civilian air-transport-command navigator in World War II and a county agent for the past 15 years. "It's a chance to help." Charles Wissenbach, 32, of Williamsburg, Mass., is a Mormon who sees his service as "something the Lord would want me to do." William Schumacher, of Catskill, N.Y., a World War II glider pilot, is leaving his wife and ten children behind for his 18month tour, says philosophically about the dangers: "If it happens, it happens...
...Hawaii in the days of King Kamehameha III (1833-54) and a brawling happy-go-lucky port of call for whaling fleets. Under a $1,600,000 state grant, Lahaina's old palaces and prisons, missionary homes and hospitals are being restored into a sort of Polynesian Williamsburg. Tourists can cruise offshore in the 53-ft. schooner The Allure and, in wintertime, watch the herds of 50-ft.-long humpback and lob-tail whales that frolic and cavort with their calves as close as 150 ft. from shore...
Feisal, in fact, may have been just as glad. New York's official rebuff hardly negated the warm welcome he had received from President Johnson in Washington, his interested visits to Williamsburg and other historic sites, or the friendly applause he was to hear at the U.N., where U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg dutifully attended a banquet for the King. Indeed, the furor effectively countered charges by leftist Arabs, led by Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, that Saudi Arabia was merely a tool of the U.S. "On balance," mused a State Department expert, "this probably helps...
Lithuania-born, Brooklyn-bred, the young immigrant was raised in a Williamsburg slum. Later Shahn attended art schools in the U.S. and Europe, and over the years evolved his own distinctive style, winning fame as a painter of biting social comment, somewhere between caricature and fantasy. His work has taken many forms. During World War II, he drew posters for the U.S. Office of War Information. He has also done murals and stage sets. In 1956-57, exercising a kind of poetic license, he lectured on art as Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard. Many of Ben Shahn...
...Your Brooklyn story [March 11] nauseated me. Brooklyn isn't Sheepshead Bay, Fort Hamilton, Flatbush, Bensonhurst, Canarsie and Coney Island. They're foreign. Brooklyn is Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Red Hook-places like that, where you can't get foot-long hot dogs or Marianne Moore, but where you can hear Latin-American music blasting all night, where Al Capone is a martyr, where you can buy licorice for a penny, where you can get the best malted milks in the world. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says...