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...BOMB "FALL-OUT": LESSON OF THE "DRAGON...
Scraps for the Dragon. By contrast, Red China, which did most of the fighting, is having to make do with the leftovers. Chinese technicians are put to work not on factories but on houses, theaters and meeting halls. The Russians gave the Chinese only one big colonial job-transportation. Hungry Red China also got the job of sending food to starving North Korea...
...narrow Saunders Street, in the shoddy suburb called Caraleigh at the southern fringe of Raleigh, N.C., stands the Windmill. Its dragon-green neon arms whirl day and night, its sexy carhops skip out in black slacks to take orders on the big, asphalt parking space, its gigantic jukebox, hitched up to outdoor amplifiers, drenches the area with blare: Pin Ball Boogie, maybe, or Jo Stafford's plangent yearning for someone to Make Love to Me -and always plenty of hillbilly...
...Robbins, an ex-diving champion who splashes boyish charm over well-heeled alumnae. "Not to have given him what he asked, they felt, would have been to mine the bridge that bears the train that carries the supply of this year's Norman Rockwell Boy Scout calendars." The dragon of the story is Gertrude Johnson, a novelist who teaches a creative-writing course. "For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren...
Author Lewis is an old hand at describing Southeast Asia to stay-at-homes (A Dragon Apparent, Golden Earth). His novel is not just the somber story of a so-so sahib, but a report on a theater of change and conflict. Moreover, in sharp vignettes, Author Lewis shows that the crackle of change in Southeast Asia comes not only from firebrand nationalists and Red fanatics but also from the intellectual bubble gum that the East borrows from the West. At Luang Nakon's leading cabaret, the local version of the Radio City Rockettes wear drum-majorette boots, hussars...