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Border Traffic. Police Chief Pao is a man with interests in 20 businesses. In Thailand there is no business like the dope business. The U.N. Narcotics Commission brands Thailand as one of the world's biggest opium trade centers. On several occasions, Pao's police made a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: The Democracy Way | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

De Soto to Tittiwee. Beale Street was a midway of dives, "conjure" doctors, fortune tellers, pawnshops and gambling joints. Colorful riverboat characters jostled streetwalkers, dope peddlers and bug-eyed farm kids who filled it from the De Soto dock* (on the Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Just Like Old Times | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Cried Flood, a witness at a recent Yucca Flat atomic test: "We were not back in these dens of sin and iniquity in Las Vegas. We were in the trenches with the troops. That is the last time I will try that one. The next time it is Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Backfire | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

General Le Van Vien bought the police from absentee Chief of State Bao Dai for $1,000,000 in 1954; the general still sends out big gleanings from his prostitution profits to his old benefactor, thereby helping Bao Dai to live in sunshine and sloth at Cannes on a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Night of Despair | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Convinced that Premier Diem, with his accent on austere morality, is going to be in power for a while, Saigon's powerful hoodlum sect, the Binh Xuyen, agreed meekly last week to abandon its golden empire of sin, at least for the time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Voluntary Disinfection | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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