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Last week Newsman Steele and his colleagues had an answer. The Communist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain, cutting off Peiping from the world. All foreign newsmen were ordered to "cease . . . collection of news and dispatching of news telegrams." In the drab, drafty Peking Club, the correspondents met and voted to stay on, at least until they were sure the ban was permanent...
Outside the house, under red-blossomed camellia trees, old women were cutting dandelions for spring greens-and coarser weeds for nanny goats carefully tethered by the front porch. Nearby were bamboo groves where old plants are grown for fuel and new shoots are cut like asparagus in April...
...tried to join the U.S. Army in the Philippines, but he was too small. The Japanese put him into a forced labor camp, cutting wood for charcoal. One day, 17-year-old José slipped away from a work gang, swam across a river and hid in the bamboo grass, waiting, so "I will be the one in Pozorrubio to find the Americans." Three G.I.s took him to headquarters, and after that, "I walk all around and show where is Jap guns, there, and there and every...
...first time since April 30, 1871. Thousands of refugees fled the molten blanket of lava, the smothering volcanic ash and dust. In Manila, a typhoon roared out of the Pacific and lashed the city with torrential rains, paralyzing daily life and restricting traffic in half the capital to bamboo rafts...
...Pump Room of the swank Ambassador East Hotel, a telephone plugged in at his table. Even at home, where he keeps five phones jingling, his privacy has a public atmosphere: he is redecorating the dining room as a miniature Pump Room, doing over his den to resemble a bamboo-walled nightclub...