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...Force pilots in Viet Nam, it was one of the busiest weeks of the war, as TIME Correspondent David DeVoss discovered when he visited the big American airbase at Danang. His report...
...like camphor boats in a bathtub, trying to locate the downtown so that they can taste the drama of the big city, just the way they would back in Cleveland or Chicago or New York. At dusk they position themselves in the shadow of the city's tallest, busiest building and are simultaneously bee-swarmed by the swish of traffic, smell of bagels, whistles of cops and honking of cabs while they wait to feel the electricity of the place coming right through their shoe soles from the neon-sparkly sidewalk...
Assigned at his own request to Engine Co. 82, the busiest fire-fighting unit in New York City, Fireman Dennis Smith (Badge No. 11389 N.Y.F.D.) soon discovered that the job of putting out fires in an urban ghetto is actuarially the most hazardous he could have found, financially one of the least rewarding, and emotionally about as soothing as selling U.S. Treasury Bonds in the streets of Hanoi. In this book he sums up an eight-year experience in which disillusionment battles with youthful pyromanticism-but never quite wins...
...half-caste child of East and West, Shanghai was built mainly by 19th century European merchants. It has become-in perhaps too many ways-China's New York. It is the nation's largest city (10 million people) and the busiest port in the Communist world, with China's most extensive industry and, consequently, its thickest smog. It also has one of China's largest slums. The hunger and diseases that used to snuff out the lives of thousands of infants annually during the 1930s have gone. But so have the sin and the aura...
...Prabang in peace time would be a quite, restful city. As it is today the only time it seems quiet and restful is if you hold your ears. Planes fly low overhead almost constantly. Every two minutes a plane takes off from Luang Prabang airport--without a doubt the busiest one-strip airport in the world. The noise is often so great that people standing more than two feet apart must shout in order to converse. This goes on 24 hours...