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Otherwise the old fighter's birthday seemed serene. At his hilltop residence outside Taipei, Chiang spent the day quietly with his family and followed Chinese custom by eating the traditional "longevity noodles." The most elaborate birthday gift came from a group of wealthy Chinese living in Thailand: $750,000 for a basketball stadium in Taipei. In island-wide celebrations, a choral group of 10,000 soldiers sang birthday songs, toasts were proposed for Chiang's health at thousands of dinners, and a spruce detachment of Nationalist Chinese "WAVES" paraded smartly. Chiang still clings to an old hope. Spotting...
...ever known"), do the usual things (he palavers with suspicious natives, she takes a nude dip in a jungle pool). At one point Mitchum is tempted to do something different. The head boy (Sabu), grinning miscegenially, offers him the use of his wife-"Plenty for two. Is custom." Is not custom censors approve; so Hero Mitchum, gulping hard, goes slinking off in pursuit of less controversial game...
...vision of teacher training it seeks not to increase public participation, but to widen professional control to include academic faculties. This aim is unrealistic. The ultimate effect of making institutions as a whole responsible for teacher training is to increase the accountability to the public, whether by statute or custom. Before they accept the responsibility that Conant offers, therefore, colleges must ask if they are willing to submit their programs to public scrutiny. Rightly or wrongly, many faculties might reject the responsibility for training teachers if it meant accepting outside advice on how to go about...
...Bulges. Actually Sy is not as expensive as the jokes about him suggest. He charges only about $350 for custom suits. The vicuna suits crowd $450. If he had his druthers, he would sculpt all his fabled clients into what he calls the Sy Devore All-American Look. Jackets, cut a good inch and a half shorter than the average, have square shoulders and single buttons. There is no handkerchief pocket-Sy hates bulges. Trousers have frontier pockets (like dungarees), no hip pockets, no cuffs, no belt (or a half belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than...
...growth of the high-priced development, planned for older and richer families who welcome and can pay for the landscaping that these developments provide. Another factor is the more competitive market. Builders are stirring themselves to combine economy with imagination and a sense of style usually associated with custom architecture...