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There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...
...nearly so well known is its 200-year-old sister society, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. It rates the seaworthiness of the vessels that Lloyd's insures, keeps day-to-day tabs on 30,546 ships, and was the first to employ Ai to mean tops. (To get the rating, a ship's construction must be approved by Lloyd's surveyors...
Woof. A.B.S. promptly accepted the challenge; it opened its own London office and this week appointed its own surveyors in ten British and Irish ports. The London Daily Express, watchdog of the empire, let out an angry woof: "Ai at Lloyd's [Register] is under fire from the U.S. The men who run America's ships want to ... replace it with an O.K. of their...
...Heigh-ai...
...impatient with friends who talked about girls or other nonrevolutionary matters, he fell in love. According to old custom, his parents had married him to a village girl when he was 14. He discarded the girl back home, with whom he had never lived, and married Yang K'ai-hui, a professor's daughter and an active Communist. Friends celebrated their marriage as an "ideal romance." She bore him two sons, both of whom were educated in Moscow. Yang was executed by Hunan's anti-Communist Governor Ho Chien...