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...gimlet-eyed money-changers on Hong Kong's Connaught Road and along the nearby Macao waterfront traditionally buy-at carefully reckoned prices-even the most dubious currencies. But last week they were shaking their heads at fishermen and smugglers selling Communist China's yuan. For the yuan had dropped to an alltime low. It began its spectacular decline last year, took its biggest plunge since January, when the news of China's food shortages first leaked out. Overall, it has dropped 50% in value from a year ago; buyers can get all they want...
...Prohibition Era in present-day India. As the members of India's Central Prohibition Committee met last week in New Delhi, the capital around them went its merry alcoholic way. In private apartments converted into speakeasies, tired Delhi businessmen sipped beer at 10 rupees ($2) a bottle. In Connaught Circus, the heart of town, young spivs sold paper bags containing liquor, soda and ice. A man walking along with a bicycle tire over his shoulder might be on his way to fix a flat, but it was just as likely he was en route to a customer thirsty enough...
Slogging toward the front during the third battle of Ypres in 1916, Gilford Dudley Seymour was, as he remembers it, the "youngest, tallest and scaredest" soldier in the Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles. But 17-year-old Private Seymour clung to duty, and duty was delivering his company's rum tot in two glazed-crockery jugs. The officer who was supposed to get the rum turned out to be dead, so Seymour buried the crocks where a hedge crossed a trench...
...escorting Jeep, shouting for the people to make way. But his voice went unheard in the thunderous clamor, and Nehru characteristically put his chin in his hand and gazed stoically ahead. Downtown, the crowds were even stormier. WELCOME PRINCE OF PEACE, read a sign in Connaught Circus. Flowers by the pound flew at Ike until he was standing foot-deep in them, and the panting Secret Service men who had already been mauled by the mobs, began fielding the blossoms until they were exhausted. "Do you believe we would have come 40 miles to see him if he were...
...quantities in laboratories following rigid university standards. Canada had made up its governmental mind last fall to do this, so there was no last-minute flap north of the border as there was in the U.S. And nobody tried to hurry the production. The University of Toronto's Connaught Medical Research Laboratories (TIME, March 29, 1954) did the job without fuss and feathers. Then the federal and provincial governments jointly gave the vaccine for youngsters in the first three grades...