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...Temple of Dawn, the third volume, Honda meets yet another reincarnation of his lost friend--this time a Thai princess named Ying Chan. A millionaire by this time, Honda builds a large summer home and invites the princess to visit him there, hoping to win her affections. His hopes come to naught, however, and he resorts to peering through a hole in the wall to watch her make love to another woman. Years later, he learns of her death by cobra-bite in Thailand...
What a wonderful title - raffish, with a street-smart tone, and with the promise, too, of a gaudy carnival running full tilt dusk to dawn. Uptown Saturday Night could have been, should have been, a neon mosaic of high spirits and lowlife...
...given a special Emmy for outstanding program and individual achievement, a delighted Dick Cavett wrote an acceptance speech and, since he could not be at the Hollywood ceremonies, asked Carol Burnett to deliver it. Then he sat back to watch the proceedings on television, only to have it slowly dawn on him that his Emmy was never going to come up. Firing off a telegram to the academy, Cavett turned down his award, saying, "Since you couldn't find room for it in your 2½-hour program, I can't find room...
They gather each morning at dawn, waiting to see if the boats coming in are empty or full. Crewmen, captains, shipowners, processors and union representatives huddle in the gloom on fishing piers all along the New England seacoast. Like generations of fishermen before them, many of these weather-lined men work grueling twelve-hour shifts in biting winds and high seas for days on end. Unlike their predecessors, however, they are catching fewer fish every year-which is one reason that U.S. fish prices are rising so fast...
...years later, what did he promise to do while 300,000 demonstrators rallied in Washington to protest the war? What did he talk about in his dawn visit to demonstrators at the Lincoln Memorial...