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...what they were paying for? It certainly was. The haphazard comedy of balding Clarinetist Phil Ford, 39, and his burbling, bouncy wife, Mimi Hines, 25, was the main attraction at the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week. Next, they are heading for Los Angeles' Coconut Grove, a stint on the BBC in London and a $3,500-a-week contract with the Tropicana in Las Vegas. Less than two years ago they were hitting the tank towns for $375 a week. Now they are one of the best-paid attractions in the business...
...just about everything-guards, doctors, books, toilets. Morning visitors can see the basins of slimy water in which the prisoners wash first themselves and then their forks, knives and plates. The floors of their cells are often of the original chill flagstone; their mattresses are made of coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after...
...everybody in the Maldives shares the government's horror at the peaceful invasion, though the islands' simple economy of coir (coconut fiber) and dried fish was totally disrupted by the British arrival. (Also disrupted was the domestic economy of Ceylonese housewives who regard Maldivian fish as an indispensable ingredient of curry, are now limited to a monthly ration of eight ounces per adult.) Gan's schoolteachers quit their jobs to sign on as high-paid laborers on the base, joining the 1,200 workmen imported from Pakistan. A Maldivian official sent from the capital island of Male...
...value in studying such primitive peoples. "Well, it's valuable to escape the social orientation of the dominant European transplant of this country. Socio-economically speaking, the norm motivations of the Jivarro reveal a ritualized libido only slightly modified by environmental quasi-determinants, you know." Quaeritor cracked a coconut and drained it of its juice...
...figuring out where they were. The scene was clearly the familiar slum section of Williamsburg, Tenn., with its long rows of dusty souls and crumbling emotions tilting crazily against a dusky sky. But there had been changes. In Period of Adjustment, which opened last week at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse, Playwright Tennessee Williams repaired no cracking masonry in his familiar dramatic neighborhood, but at least he slapped on a coat of whitewash...