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...Korean War, eleven of the 21 captured G.I.s who defected to Red China have come forlornly home. Last week turncoat No. 12 returned.* By comparison with his predecessors, ex-Corporal William C. White, 35, a Negro from Plumerville, Ark., had fared well during his 11½ years behind the Bamboo Curtain. A high school dropout in Kansas City, White got a law degree in Peking, studied Russian and Chinese literature and worked as a translator. White also married a Chinese girl, who accompanied him with their two children aged six and four...
...doing away with the strains and stresses of big-city living, there's nothing more effective than fishing. And you can fish right here in Tokyo without battling your way through impossible traffic to the sea or mountain brooks." For 170 yen (470) a customer receives a bamboo rod baited with either a fly or an earthworm. He is then entitled to an hour of fishing, and may either sell back to the management any carp he catches or take them home in a polyethylene bag provided by the house. As an added inducement, some parlors offer prizes, ranging...
...Music), this disarming comedy spectacular has the charm, spirit and easy-does-it amiability usually associated with movies made on a shoe string. Producer Stan Margulies and Director Ken Annakin, in lightsome homage to the birth of aviation, have sensibly squandered a good share of their budget on bamboo, catgut, glue, canvas and piano wire to reproduce an authentic, outlandish armada of vintage aircraft. These flaphappy contraptions include at least six flyable full-scale models, among them a facsimile of the plane in which France's Louis Blériot made his historic 1909 flight across the English Channel...
...Bali (560 miles), tied up the capital's Mercedes and betjak (pedicab) traffic for three hours with a torchlight parade that ended in an effigy-burning of Uncle Sam and the Tunku. Over the whole scene reared a 40-ft. hammer and sickle woven from straw and bamboo...
...home-brewed rice whisky called lao khao, which burns with a fine blue flame when ignited. Their staple food is rice and pla raa-raw fish that has been allowed to rot for as long as six months. They also eat tarantulas drenched with fermented fish juice, bamboo shoots marinated in buffalo blood, ant eggs, fried bee larvae and tree lizards in chili sauce. These dishes are tasty, but they also contain liver flukes, hookworms and other parasites; as a result, fully 90% of all northeasterners suffer from one or an other debilitating disease. Government teams dose whole villages with...