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...charter groups from Europe to the beaches of Thailand. We also offer sun and sand. Why not Viet Nam?" A government study targets earnings from tourism at $140 million by 1980. By that time -and provided that the present uneasy truce does not get any uneasier -Ngoc even visualizes Con Son Island, the home of the notorious tiger cages for political prisoners, catering instead to tourists. They would enjoy miles of palm-fringed beaches that are occupied mainly by giant tortoises...
FLAT STORE. A gambling concession or con game. Example: the skilo, a rigged game in which the mark spins an arrow hoping it will stop at a winning color...
JAPAN'S RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.: Relations with China will become important, but relations with the U.S. come first. The Japanese attitude toward China has been split around 50-50 pro and con closer relations. When it comes to the Soviet Union, the pros are only 10% of our people. In the case of the U.S., I would say that about 70% are supporters of the U.S. If Japan is to contribute to world peace, she must perfect her own security, and to this end she must cooperate closely with the U.S. In the economic and technological area, Japan...
...BOOK OF NUMBERS has a raucous, picaresque, raunchy kind of charm, at least initially. Two black con men (Raymond St. Jacques and Philip Thomas) descend on an Arkansas town called El Dorado during the early '30s to start a numbers bank. Thomas has a rather meandering love affair with a "high yellow" woman (Freda Payne), leaving him little time to help St. Jacques fight off racist law officers and greedy white gangsters. St. Jacques, who also directed, works in some nice period feeling and a couple of quick, glancing social asides about the daily indignities of being black. After...
...threatening our environment that nurtures us, gives us spiritual pleasure, makes us at one with the miracle of life. I believe, and I know many students, professors and alumni believe, that we must reconsider where we are going. I know this letter is full of perhaps simplistic idealism that Con Edison cannot take into account if it wishes to continue profitably. And perhaps Harvard feels that the remuneration it will receive from selling part of Black Rock Forest will help it continue. But continue to do what? Create more scientists that destroy the framework of our existence? Perhaps I have...