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BEAR WITH us. With that, work lights burst into brilliant glare, diesel compressors roar into life, air hammers rip into the pavement, and dust begins to rise. Comes the dawn. Trucks rumble up loaded with thick lengths of timber. Racing against the clock, the workmen literally pave the torn-up street with the square logs-just in time to let the morning torrent of traffic flood through. Can Tokyo possibly finish the building job by October? There have been doubters. Workmen are still scrambling all over the swooping, tent-shaped roof of the vast Olympic swimming pool and the upward...
Like Norsemen of old toasting Balder, the god of light, Scandinavians celebrate summer with feasting and fireworks, music festivals and folk dancing until dawn. At lunch hour, heliotropic beauties stand on every sidewalk with closed eyes and hiked skirts, "mooning at the sun," as the Swedes say. Restaurant tables are laden with summer delicacies: crayfish, trout in sour cream, fresh eels, wild strawberries. In the milky gloaming that passes for night, Copenhagen cabarets work double shifts, and the nightlong sounds of revelry prompt a tourist official's tip: "Have fun in Denmark. Sleep in the next country...
Tognazzi proposes to the delectable nymphet, suggesting, "We'll honeymoon in Disneyland." But all the hopeless attempts to recapture his youth end when he wakes up on the beach in a cold dawn, wearing a wet blanket and an Indian headdress, and surrounded by a ring, of torches, symbolically extinguished. Needless to say, he feels very old, tired, embarrassed, and drives off determined to forget the whole experience. Not a bad idea, since Crazy Desire is really just a compendium of childish whims...
Breaking a six-week lull in the war, a 600-man Viet Cong battalion stormed the district capital of Duchoa (pop.7,000) west of Saigon before dawn, ran into determined resistance by the outnumbered, 140-man garrison. Vietnamese Rangers barricaded inside a day nursery stopped one Viet Cong company at the edge of town. When the guerrillas opened fire on two U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers defending the local military headquarters, the platoon of Vietnamese artillerymen shortened their fuses to 2 sec., slammed shells into the breaches, and blasted away pointblank at anything that moved-firing an awesome 322 rounds...
...still too early to tell," insists Auric, mindful that many of the old problems, such as the regulation limiting rehearsal time to a mere three hours daily, still exist. But despite his caution, the signs are all good. Parisians queued up before dawn to get tickets to Norma, and a black market in seats is prospering nicely...