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House Arrest. Perhaps the most pitiful prisoner in this royal prison was Qabus. Sent to England at 16, he attended Sandhurst and spent six months as a lieutenant with the British army on the Rhine. When Qabus returned home, he spent four years under virtual house arrest. He sometimes went a full year without seeing his father, yet had to obtain the Sultan's permission even to leave the palace...
Information gathered at the taxpayers' expense is often kept secret for no better reason than apathy or red tape. When Dr. J.B. Rhine of Duke University, the noted expert on parapsychology, was asked recently to undertake some research for the Department of Defense, he agreed-but at the same time inquired why an 18-year-old study of his on the training of dogs to detect land mines had never been made public. Apparently, no one had bothered to declassify the material. A more pressing case of bureaucratic ineptitude involves the Atomic Energy Commission, which holds literally thousands...
...excited the imagination of a Winston cigarette ad campaigner. The countess's present quarters were on the castle grounds in a palatial lean-to that the countess shared with her gay son and a daughter who had once been voted the Ugliest Duckling beyond the Valley of the Rhine...
...Japanese prison camp during World War II. "I was out from under this flag for three years," he says. "It's a symbol that means apple pie and baseball, and a long, hard pull for me without it." Boston City Councilwoman Louise Day Hicks, who wears a rhine-stone-spangled flag pin, defines the whole matter with finality: "The flag is motherhood and apple...
...give up his commitment to his New York gallery. Among projects in the works are a fire-and-water fountain for St. Louis, a Star of David created by laser beams and mirrors for an Illinois synagogue and a mural for the Tel Aviv museum. Meanwhile, Leverkusen on the Rhine, whose chief distinction until now has been its sprawling Bayer industries, has settled down to living with its "living wall...