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Finally, for those who end up about three in the morning with a dry feeling in their mouths, Chinatown will fix it with an Egg Foo Yung...
Conditioned Reflex. At Michigan State College, Instructor and ex-Army Major Charles Foo rapped ineffectually for order, finally brought dead silence and a class of ex-G.I.s to its feet, when he barked: "Tennshun...
...foot, 200-pound Foo Tak-yam last week visited Macao's Buddhist Kuan Yin Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight...
...Foo a picul of gold was a drop in the bucket; he had reaped one of the polyglot Portuguese colony's biggest fortunes from his teeming salons, where gamblers from nearby Hong Kong and South China came for fan-tan and cusek (played with dice). During the war Foo got into the big time; he cornered Macao's food market. On the profits he kept six concubines in a Macao mansion...
...operations plan was known as "Foo-Foo." In preparation the Australian First Tactical Air Force had flown the 1,400-mile round trip from Morotai to bomb Tarakan heavily. U.S. bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force added their bit. Then U.S. Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey sailed his light task force of cruisers and destroyers in for four days' naval bombardment. Foo-Foo really got rolling when U.S. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal brought up his Seventh Fleet landing craft loaded with tough, felt-hatted veterans of the illustrious 9th Australian Division and a token Dutch force...