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Triple Fare From the Madding Crowd

Tokyo – You begin by reverting to clichés, some of which are almost as old as Madame Butterfly herself: You, as a foreigner, are a guest in Japan. Further, you are an ambassador of America. And Tokyo’s 9,834 taxi drivers have got to live, too,

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Scotland III – National Identity

Jan. 16, 1971 “No one who has crossed the border from England into Scotland can fail to be aware that in some sense he has come into another country with a life peculiarly its own. He sees around him the symbols of nationality: a flag,

The Citadel and ruins of Susa; what appear to be eroded hills are actually great piles of debris and rubble - potsherds, human and animal bones, shaped stones and other archeological remains.

How Lonely Sits The City – Part I

A Survey in Two Parts of the Human Impact of Agricultural Development from Prehistoric to Contemporary Times as seen from the Village of Shush-Daniel on the Khuzestan Plain of Southwest Persia Contents   Part One: 10,000 to 640 B.C. – Bedouin. PartTwo: Le Temoin –

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A Pacific Summing-Up

Honolulu  December 7, 1970 Part I Ten thousand islands lie south and west of Hawaii in the world’s largest ocean. Pacific waters wash across a third of the globe, an area more than 20 times the size of the U.S. Mainland. The island area in

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Pacific Unity and Division

Honolulu   December 4, 1970   It may well be that the Pacific Islands will be mostly preoccupied with their own emergence and development in the early years of the 1970s. Regionalism has special problems in an ocean so vast. Still, there has been both