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...backwater Bali Hais are to be found in the Leeward Islands, which are part of the Lesser Antilles, south and east of Puerto Rico; Dutch-ruled St. Eustatius, better known as Statia, and Saba; French St. Barthelemy, a.k.a. St. Barts; and the British islands of Anguilla, Montserrat and Barbuda. These islands were named but largely ignored by the Spanish because they offered little promise of quick riches; for the most part, they have scant rainfall and thin soil. Thus they were generally spared the excesses of European rivalry that devastated rich plantation colonies like Jamaica, Trinidad, Cuba and Hispaniola. They...
...shoelaces," Richard Rodgers once remarked. Many composers would have been happy to tie Rodgers' shoes for him if only they had been able to fill them. He could write anything, and to order and to suit. When Oscar Hammerstein II handed him the lyric for Bali Ha'i, Rodgers studied it for a moment, then turned the typed page over, retired to the next room and five minutes later came back with the completed melody, one of his most haunting...
LOOSE ENDS At Circle in the Square, Paul and Susan fall in love on the beach in Bali. A peace corps volunteer who has spent two years teaching natives to build latrines, Paul wants to go home to a real job: teaching English at a Philadelphia private school. Susan, a young adventuress, breathlessly announces in a raspberry voice that she and the world have not yet been properly introduced. And so they part, this tall, dark scholar and this manic urchin...
...final scene, both realize the mysterious potency of this enigmatic decade. Susan buttons into her designer suit, the one with the tweed shirt, that reaches just to the top of her boots. She dashes on bold lipstick, a bottled scent, and jewelry she would have laughed at on that Bali beach. She smiles, says goodbye, calls Paul "Babe" one final time and exits to join her new lover for dinner. The decade has killed marriage, turned romance into a business and banished communication between lovers from the bedroom...
...double, to 14,000 a month, the number of Indo-chinese refugees it will admit as permanent immigrants. The United Nations is making plans for an international refugee conference, to be held in Geneva in mid-July. At week's end Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flew to Bali, along with the Foreign Ministers of Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to discuss the refugee problem with representatives of the countries that have had to deal with it firsthand-the ASEAN (for Association of Southeast Asian Nations) states of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines...