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When completed next year, it will be the largest sculpture in history. Already it more than doubles the height of Ramses II's portraits at Abu Simbel and is bigger than the biggest Buddha, a 175-ft.-high statue in Afghanistan. Lee's sabre thrusts 50 ft., and his battle charger, Traveller, travels 141 ft. from nose to tail. When finished, the sculpture will loom 190 ft. by 305 ft., soaring higher than a 30-story building...
...least served the purpose of keeping him quiet. Thich Tam Chau, spokesman of the Buddhist hierarchy's moderate wing, publicly broke with Tri Quang and the militants. Tri Quang, said Tam Chau, has "no authority to promulgate any decisions" of the hierarchy, adding, "I am not for bringing Buddha into the streets." And in a swift, virtually bloodless move in Hue, 3,000 of Ky's troops took over the northern city, which the Buddhists and rebel Vietnamese soldiers have controlled for nearly four months...
Leary calls himself a Hindu, and he uses Eastern symbolism along with psychedelic experience to reject the outward-looking, "goal-directed" American attitude (disciples like to quote him to the effect that "Buddha was a dropout"). Leary is overfond of using the word "game" to put down the concerns men usually take seriously. Not that he would eliminate game playing: he says he only wants the games recognized for what they are. In practice, however, this requires a degree of judgment far beyond the capabilities of most mortals. Many a youthful LSD user, newly impressed with what suddenly seems...
Seen on a soft spring night, the luminous spires of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha seem to float over Bangkok scarcely touched by the blare of traffic, the neon slashes of bars and the ragged hurly-burly of mainland Southeast Asia's largest city. So too does the Kingdom of Thailand, proud heir to virtually seven centuries of uninterrupted independence, seem to soar above the roiling troubles of the region all around it. Neighboring Laos is half in Communist hands, Cambodia hapless host to the Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than...
...signs proclaim the virtues of Honda cycles, Philips TV sets, Coca-Cola and the Suzie Wong nightclub. For the gourmet, the Two Vikings offers Russian caviar in avocado pears for $5. Any jewelry store on Oriental Avenue has star rubies for the asking-plus $3,250. And instant antique Buddha heads are everywhere available to the unwary tourist, the corrosion of centuries being achieved by burying the newly minted statue in urine-soaked ground for three months. Equally abundant are instantly available women...