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...Frenchman has his café, the Briton his pub, but for Japan's man in the street the place to meet has been, for the past three centuries, a big bathtub. Throughout Tokyo today, where in working class neighborhoods up to 80% of the population still lacks private facilities, more than 1,600,000 men and women immerse themselves companionably every evening in the steaming vats of the city's 2,608 sento or public bathhouses. There Suzuki-san discusses the besuboru pennant race, and his wife, behind a flimsy partition (a late 19th century concession to Occidental...
...contrast, a Frenchman who fails to help another when he can do so without risk is liable for up to five years in prison and a $3,000 fine. The law's rationale, explained Sorbonne Law Professor André Tunc, is that a bystander "participates in the murder by his decision not to intervene." Similar laws are on the books in Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia. Surveys do not show that citizens of those countries feel any more like helping, said Chicago Sociologist Hans Zeisel. But in a comparative study of U.S. and German students, Zeisel found that...
...downhill, while U.S. skiers soared birdlike off the bumps, provoking "ahs" from fans (and losing time), the Austrians kept their skis in the snow. Heini Messner, an auto mechanic from Gries am Brenner, won the race - with three other Austrians and a Frenchman strung out behind. The star of the meet was France's Jean Claude Killy, 21, who showed why he is the best slalom skier in the world: cutting the gates so close that his sweater brushed the poles, Killy won both the special slalom and the giant slalom. The best the U.S. could do was third...
Added Paris-Jour: "The stupid Frenchman who says 'Don't go to the United States because Chicago is a gangster city, or to Dallas, the city of the rifle with the telescopic sight, or to Las Vegas, racket capital,' doesn't find a very big audience. Let's hope that Mr. Fulbright won't find any bigger one in America...
...full-time job even with the help of a full-time housekeeper. Additionally, there are minor matters, like languages to learn. Lloyd has some school-taught Spanish, and Ann is setting herself to learning French. "My hairdresser can help me," she says, pointing out that he is a Frenchman...