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Franklin Russell, 43, is a tall, sturdy, New Zealand-born nature writer with the kind of rugged looks that excite casting directors for beer commercials. He has been called the most interesting and accomplished writer in his field since Rachel Carson. (He is, in fact, far more accomplished; The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea were basically beads -of fact strung on a thread of prose that often strained for poetic effect.) Unlike Miss Carson, however, Russell is not a sentry on the ecological DEW line. His books, Argen the Gull, Watchers at the Pond...
...tolerate his own-and life's-absurdities. Laughter is vital in helping to define what is human: its absence is generally taken as a sign of grave psychic stress. Yet laughter itself has never been satisfactorily defined. "The laughable is what we laugh at," writes New Zealand-born Philosopher D. H. Monro in his survey of prevailing theory. Argument of Laughter. "We laugh because we have seen something laughable. That seems...
Reviewing his life in 1968, McKay suggested that his greatest achievement was to have made the church a worldwide organization. During his presidency, the Mormon rolls expanded from just over 1,000,000 to 2,815,000. He opened five new Temples: in Oakland, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Switzerland and London. The Temples -not to be confused with lower-ranking Mormon meeting houses-enabled Europeans for the first time to perform the sacred Mormon Temple rites, such as "endowment" (a vow to live church principles) or "sealing" of marriages "for time and eternity," without traveling to North America. Missions grew...
...withdrawing from Asia and the Pacific. The United States will keep its treaty commitments. Our policy is neither one of gradual withdrawal from Asia nor of unwarranted intervention in Asian affairs. As a Pacific power, we will remain in the Pacific." Both in Australia and New Zealand, Agnew's last foreign stop, the Vice President said that the U.S. was committed to the defense of the two countries in the event of an all-out attack...
Then Air Force Two was off again, this time bound for Bali. There, the Vice President will rest before his final touchdown this week in Australia and New Zealand...