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...witnessed by TIME Correspondent S. Chang recently, a typical party begins when the kisaeng, each bearing a numbered tag, flutter into a banquet room filled with an equal number of Japanese males. Matching their numbers to those borne by the guests, the giggling girls kneel and begin serving food and drinks. A band plays, but the guests never quite enter into the party spirit. Instead, after an hour or so of eating and nervous fidgeting by the guests, the kisaeng leave, change swiftly into bell-bottoms or miniskirts, then lead their partners to a line of cabs...
...times, the outrage turns to despair. There is "an almost universal feeling of dismay," says a recently departed Administration official who has returned to the business community. At a Chicago banquet 2½ weeks ago for top executives of companies listed in the FORTUNE 500, the talk about Watergate was reminiscent of an S.D.S. meeting; words like "fascist" and "arrogance of power" were used to describe the atmosphere in the Administration...
Dave Wilson, a rookie flipper from Currier House, was named "Radcliffe Pinball Player of the Year" at the first annual Pinball Awards banquet yesterday in Currier House...
Pale and unsmiling, the diminutive Mao-suited official walked into the grand banquet hall of Peking's Great Hall of the People one day last week. He paused uncertainly at the door, but protocol officials hustled him over to stand in line with Premier Chou En-lai and greet guests at a dinner honoring Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this low-key style, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, now 69, returned from the shadows that have enveloped him since 1966, when he was purged along with Chief of State Liu Shao...
...familiar to other expense-account societies: anywhere from one-fifth to four-fifths of all entertainment expenditures are bogus. One hard-drinking salesman spent $3,000 a month at 38 different bars; investigators found that he usually drank alone. An executive put his daughter's wedding-bridal kimono, banquet, honeymoon and all-on his expense account. In fact, it is common practice in Japan to phone a friend at another company and ask permission to use his name for some fictitious entertainment. "I have done it whenever I needed a stiff drink for myself and my staff after...