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...Church, to deliver an invocation in San Francisco. Cheerfully he approved a tentative schedule that puts him (and Mamie) in San Francisco next Wednesday evening, calls for an acceptance speech on Thursday, and grants three or four days' vacation at posh Cypress Point on California's Monterey Peninsula...
...maintain bases there after the islands became independent. In 1947, a year after actual independence was granted, 23 such areas were defined, only three of them major: Clark Air Field, 50 miles north of Manila; the Navy's Subic Bay installations on the northwest shoulder of Bataan peninsula; and the Navy's Sangley Point Air Base at Cavite, on Manila...
Port Angeles' problem was in some ways more difficult. Its economy was sound, its future secure, but its location on the remote Olympic Peninsula cut it off from the main current of Washington life, and its community life was stagnating. The Bureau's solution: broad-based citizen participation in cultural and sociological programs. Today Port Angeles (pop. 11,850) not only feels itself a part of Washington but of the world. One prime civic project: some 200 of its citizens regularly exchange correspondence, art and books with those of Rosenheim. Germany, and in the last year, high schools...
...Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists also like to drive along the Izu Peninsula, with its tiny fishing villages and bubbling hot springs, visit Hakone for the best view of snow-capped Fujiyama, and stop at Toba, near Ago Bay, where they can see the world's biggest culture pearl operation and find some rare bargains...
...rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain," Bernard Shaw has his madeover Liza Doolittle triumphantly recite in his film Pygmalion, thus inadvertently giving modern literature its one memorable line characterizing the equable climate of the Iberian Peninsula. But there was nothing temperate about February's weather in Spain. The cold wave which had paralyzed southern Europe swept down over the Pyrenees and deposited a blanket of frost which chilled to the bone millions of lightly dressed Spaniards living in unheated homes and, far worse, ruined the crops on hundreds of thousands of olive, almond and citrus trees. Hardest...