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...longer "an eye-catcher." A strolling policeman no longer accepts the gratuitous glass of iced sherbet from the street vendor, under pain of prosecution for them both if he does. Office "peons" no longer demand "tea money" for leading callers to officials. Karachi's once-flourishing café society stays home, has abandoned the nightclubs to foreigners. As one businessman, who has made $2,000,000 in the past four years, put it, sipping his drink in private in his home: "Why provoke the tiger...
When tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Sculptor César saunters through his old Left Bank haunts these days, it is like a triumphal procession. Grave, bearded men bow in deference. Old friends cry out, "Congratulations!" Throwing himself into a chair at the Café Deux Magots, César snaps: "Your coffee's no good. Bring me hot chocolate." Waiters rush to carry out his bidding. Both they and César know that three years ago César would have been unable to pay for a single cup of coffee or chocolate...
...steel mills and barrooms of Aliquippa, Pa., the men who make steel heatedly debate one subject. They beat it to pieces during Coke breaks in the fiery shadows of the open hearths, carry it into the Balkan Café and the Mill City Inn and Ernie's Steak House, hash it out in their homes. The crucial subject: the Pittsburgh Pirates, once the door mat of the National League but at week's end five games from first place...
...would have been confusing enough. Of all Europe's confusing enclaves, none is quite so complex. The border between the two countries runs so crazily that in one place a man can switch countries just by walking from his bedroom into his living room. The frontier slices one café's billiard table in two, and there was a time when players on one side would have to quit at 11 p.m. while those on the other could keep going until midnight. In 1942, the occupying Nazis proclaimed the whole district to be Dutch, but the very next...
...Algerian rebels themselves, getting nowhere in Algeria, are reviving their campaign of terrorism in France itself. In the past three weeks Moslem terrorists have been machine-gunning cafés and police stations in Paris, mostly directing their attacks on fellow Algerians. Twelve have been killed, among them an 18-year-old English chorus girl accidentally shot down on her way to work at the Folies-Bèrgere...