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...Koofai Nuamuri, the turquoise Lake of the Virgins and the deepest of the three craters. A goat track of a path wound around its lip. Hundreds of meters down, spread like the icing on some toxic cupcake, lay the green lake, marbled with veins of sulfurous yellow. A weatherworn signpost near the summit proclaimed that the lakes were black, white and red. "That was back in the 1970s," said Dagama, my guide. "They've changed colors many times since then...
...benefit auction in Los Angeles for the "Neighbors of Watts," Norton Simon, the millionaire art collector and philanthropist, plunked down a cool $23,000 for Ripening, a drybrush watercolor of two tomatoes on a weatherworn windowsill. "Fantastic," glowed the artist, Actor Henry Fonda, who had donated the watercolor to the auction. "Norton and Jennifer [Norton's wife, Actress Jennifer Jones] phoned my wife Shirlee the day after the auction to say how pleased they are with the painting. Norton said: Tell Henry that's not the way to ripen tomatoes-on a windowsill...
Behind a 30-ft. gray statue of Mao sits Peking No. 26 secondary school, a five-year institution with 3,080 students and the driving spirit of Mao. At the door of the gray building, weatherworn and flaking, are the smiling hosts who have arranged the tour meticulously. The visitors trudge down the cold, dark halls (heat in the rooms only, electric light nowhere) and the first thing, as usual...
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Some of the hulks dredged up by U.N. salvagers and dumped in the shallows still jut from corners of Port Said harbor; a few weatherworn propaganda posters still flap from the city's walls, and the scarred stump of the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps, torn down by mobs celebrating the departure of the last Anglo-French invaders, still stands at the canal entrance. Vastly more in evidence, as Egyptians prepared to celebrate the second anniversary of Nasser's Suez "victory," were the 385 ships that his Suez Canal Authority shuttled through the canal last week...