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...work, in effect, is not in school, not in the family, not in the unions, not in youth movements, not in political parties. It doesn't vote; it doesn't pay taxes. It goes to the movies three times a week, plays the pinball machines in cafés, flits through the dance halls, attends boxing and football matches and jaywalks." STRUGGLE FOR A ROOF...
...scholarship to study gunnery at Fontainebleau. France. In Paris in the '20s, he became friendly with Pridi Phanomyong, a Siamese political-science student who lived in the same pension; the two were destined to become political Siamese twins for the next 30 years. At the tables of the Café de Flore and the Deux Magots on the Left Bank, Phibun, Pridi and fellow expatriates plotted a revolution at home. Their schemes worked out successfully in the revolution of 1932, when King Prajad-hipok signed Siam's first constitution, which Pridi wrote...
...cruiser steamed into Lisbon harbor. Aboard was Brazil's Joao Cafe Filho, President of a onetime Portuguese colony that became a nation 100 times as big and seven times as populous as the motherland. Met at dockside by figurehead President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side of the street, yellow from the other. The pace of the welcome...
...warmth and lavishness of Café Filho's reception sprang from the abiding affection the Portuguese feel for their huge ex-colony. The affection is mutual. Though Brazilians and Portuguese love to poke fun at each others' accents, customs and national traits, the ties of sentiment between the two countries are notably stronger than those between Spain and the former Spanish colonies in the New World -partly because Brazil won her independence from Portugal (in 1822) without gunfire and bloodshed. When Portugal got into a quarrel with India last year over the tiny colony of Goa, Brazil sent...
...Ward is not the first to "drift horizontally" into café society, but smarter girls take jewels, avoiding income tax and naughty names. The real immoralists are her patrons, who have $100 to throw away on such prosaic entertainment. They, not Minot or his Patsy, should be tried. Other career girls also have started at the bottom. Pat's sin was not ambition but impatience...