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Griggs quickly learned, however, that many of the old frustrations of news gathering had persisted. "The telephone system remains a shambles, punctuality is still nonexistent, and appointments are seldom kept. The old Belgian bureaucracy has been embroidered upon and enhanced, and the matabish, or bribe, is still in full flower...
Snakes and Parrots. Burke called his stories "tales" and had no illusion about their realism. In his Limehouse, Fu Manchu stalks opium dens; every flower girl has a "lily-white bosom" and is generally no older than 14-Burke seemed to have a pre-Nabokov feeling for nymphets. There are sharp krisses, malevolent white parrots and deadly snakes. It is, in fact, a never-never land that encloses the reader in a cave of such hypnotic mandarin prose as the following...
...Harvard Book Store is showing some contemporary paintings by young Korean painters, several of whom have won the Korean National Exhibition. Most of the works are examples of traditional Oriental themes--landscapes, bird and flower scenes, waterfalls--done in watercolor or brush and ink. All are for sale and most are expensive but a few show a control of color and technique that let them transcend the banality of their subject matter...
...Viet Nam War and last year's Middle East October war. Prager made it to Cyprus aboard a 1,000-ton German trawler bearing two dozen newsmen whose transistor radios interfered dangerously with the ship's compass. "The old Viet Nam bush jackets are here in full flower," quipped Marmon as Prager and other journalists arrived...
Louis in the offseason, tending to a flock of lucrative endorsements and businesses, including a flower shop. With the most punishing steals ahead and an annual salary of $120,000 guaranteed, what keeps the son of a poor Louisiana family running? "Stealing is the most dramatic moment of the game," says Brock passionately. "The pitcher knows you're going, the crowd knows you're going, you know you're going. When you succeed, it's a great feeling. Nothing upsets the other team as much as a stolen base." The way he is going, the National...