Word: chinatowns
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...counter that, Yorty recently embarked on a whirlwind courtship of Los Angeles' minority groups. In the space of five days, he lunched with the Independent Orthodox Rabbis, had cocktails with leaders of the city's Mexican community, dined with the local Chamber of Commerce in Chinatown, introduced Martin Luther King Jr. at a World Affairs Council luncheon, attended a reception of Hungarian community leaders, and planned to appear at a dinner honoring Cardinal Mclntyre...
What follows are views of life among such ethnic fringe groups as Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews, a band of Rumanian gypsies at Coney Island, a voodoo cult in Harlem, Japanese Buddhists on Riverside Drive, New Year revelers in Chinatown. Paradoxically, while poking through the city's sociological byways, Gaisseau misses the singular flavor of New York almost entirely. Like many other well-meaning tourists, he makes a superficial tour of the melting pot but overlooks the fire that keeps it going-the fast, fierce, savvy modernity of a great metropolis...
Still, San Francisco is popular, if only because of its peculiarities. The old cable cars still rattle up 45-degree hills. There is Chinatown, which these days sells Japanese-made trinkets. There is Fisherman's Wharf, for abalone and prawns. There are some of the best restaurants in the U.S. There are the swinging nightspots of North Beach, where the most popular dance is that variation of the twist called "the Swim," which, until last week at least, was taught at The Condor by an instructress in a topless swimming suit atop the piano...
...prevent his own tiu lien (loss of face), he told his trusting customers that he had known of the Hong Kong failure and had withdrawn their funds in time. Then he set up a phony account in his Chinatown bank, juggled his books, which were kept in Chinese characters, so as to pay back anyone who demanded cash from Hong Kong...
...Costly Decision. In 1927 the Bank of America absorbed old Charlie's Chinatown bank. Dolly, who had worked for her father since her teens, two years later became branch manager-and discovered her father's embezzlements. "We talked all night," recalls Dolly. "The question for me was whether I would betray my father. But I couldn't go down and betray him. And once I made that decision, I just stuck for more than 30 years...