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Weymouth, will adorn Longleat House in Wiltshire, one of England's finest Elizabethan mansions, whose stately grounds were laid out by the legendary landscape architect Capability Brown. "Maze King" Bright, as he is known in Britain, will embellish Longleat with a lakefront, three-dimensional maze of yew hedges and no fewer than six covered bridges. The maze, when completed in several years, will be open to the public, but its secret, Bright has sworn, will be known only to himself and the Lord of Longleat...
...elsewhere. Park urged his nation to be more self-reliant. Said he: "Where adequate and independent means of self-defense are lacking, all agreements for collective security guarantee could prove only meaningless." But in Malaysia, government officials seemed unworried about future security, and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew insisted calmly: "I don't believe in the domino theory." Philippine leaders felt confident that the U.S. would intervene with naval forces in the unlikely event that Communists ever invaded across the South China...
...Communist Southeast Asia, men like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Indonesia's Suharto developed their talents during or soon after their countries achieved independence. All received a heavy dose of Western culture, and their concepts of national leadership were molded in the pattern of the imperial traditions by which they had been ruled. They were indoctrinated in character patterns thought necessary in the West to achieve supreme power in industrialized political democracies, although the traits, such as charisma or coolness under fire, have often degenerated into parody. Such leaders are less concerned with providing...
Women's ace Kerry Melville once asked me, "Aown't yew tayken enoof pictchahs of me, sonny?" at a Slims tourney at Squantum last year. I had been focusing on her for four games in one second-round match, and she was winning. A thin-skinned grouch, Melville has been on the verge of winning major tournaments for years but has never been able to break a final round block against the hierarchy of the game: King and Court...
Thieu will use the political period for his own benefit, to strengthen his regime and keep the South independent of the North. That independence has already brought a measure of stability to Southeast Asia. Singapore's tough Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, acknowledged this last spring, remarking: "The American intervention in Viet Nam has broken the hypnotic spell on the other Southeast Asians that Communism is irresistible, that it is the wave of history. Communist victory was demonstrated not to be inevitable." With the bombing ended, Lee acknowledged early this month that he was now "in a more uncomfortable...