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...giving to history a heroic sense rather than data processing it. Leutze even persuaded his exacting student Albert Bierstadt, then 24 (later to become one of the chief chroniclers of the Rocky Mountain landscape), to climb a ladder and touch up the bright sky on the left. There was precious little tranquillity that he could add to the blood-and-thunder turbulence of gun smoke...
While U.S. gold is leaving Fort Knox in uncomfortable quantities - and dominating the economic news - another precious metal is rapidly draining out of the federal vaults at West Point...
...Thailand the TIME group was received by King Bhumibol Adulyadej at his Bangkok palace, surrounded by green lawns and hedges neatly fashioned into the shapes of elephants, alligators and birds. In the Gomain Room (so named for a red precious stone, said to be clearer than a ruby), the King spoke of the closeness of Thai-U.S. relations. Then he showed the visitors some of his canvases-the monarch is a dedicated amateur painter. The pictures included one showing a blur of writhing demons in browns, greens and reds titled Subversion...
...expected to hurt cigarette sales, but only to force the companies to shift their ads for some 100 brands to newspapers and magazines. The Daily Mirror's columnist Cassandra reassured smokers: "You'll still have the precious right to smoke yourself to death with a wonderful selection of brands at your suicidal disposal." But the restriction may not end with TV, if Labor has its way. Said Health Minister Kenneth Robinson: "The question of cigarette advertising in other media is still under consideration...
...sponges off his friends and beats his wife and girl friends. Author Donleavy then turns the moral universe on its head by making the reader love Dangerfield for his killer instinct, flamboyant charm, wit, flashing generosity-and above all for his wild, fierce, two-handed grab for every precious second of life. "More," "Now" and "Eeeeee!" are Dangerfield's key words...