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...dozen, soft drinks average 75? for a large bottle-making the soda as costly as the Scotch. Housing is astronomically high: a fair-sized lot with a modest home can run as high as $75,000. Bad roads are made even more hazardous for tourists by the custom of driving on the left. Water is so scarce that some areas are without for eight hours every night, although a badly needed saltwater conversion plant on St. Croix was dedicated last week, and will alleviate the problem. As residents of an unincorporated territory, the islanders are granted U.S. citizenship, but they...
...Vietnamese emissary who was dispatched to Washington in 1873 to seek help from President Grant against the invading French. Grant said no, and the agent sadly headed home. En route, he stopped in Yokohama to visit the U.S. consul, an old friend, and to exchange poems, as was the custom in those parts and times. The final line of the Vietnamese emissary's poem read: "Spiritual companion, in what year will we be together in the same sampan?" Said President Johnson: "Today we know the answer. We are together. And we know our destination...
...reminding Johnson of a "historical precedent" unearthed by Theodore Sorensen, President Kennedy's speechwriter. None of the Vice Presidents who have occupied the White House on the death of a President, noted Sorensen, have ever sought re-election to a second consecutive full term.* Would Johnson follow that custom? Grinning slyly, the President replied: "I didn't know there had been that much speculation about it. I think that, down the road several months from now, there will be an appropriate time for an announcement of what my future plans...
Strenuous or dangerous sports were taboo in traditional China. The notion of legal litigation is distasteful, a fact reflected in proverbs like: "Win your law suit and lose your money." Life is regulated more by custom than by law. The ideal demands that disputes be settled by mediation and compromise. "The Chinese people love compromise," said Lu Hsün, a satirist who died in 1936. "If you say to them," This room is too dark, we must have a window made,' they will oppose you. But if you say, 'Let's take off the roof...
...people we took it from, but we were mistaken. I do not condemn one man alone. I condemn the system that produced this man. My book is an argument against the bankruptcy of our system." In his book, he adds: "They [the Communist leadership] are all fat-a custom-made fat. They were tough when the revolution was tough, but when the revolution got rotund, they grew with...