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Lights Up. The morality crusade has a long way to go. Tokyo still has 1,200 all-night tearooms, cozily dark and equipped with commodious private boxes, which offer all kinds of opportunities. Detectives make nightly rounds of the tearooms to enforce lighting regulations (minimum illumination after 11 p.m.: ten...
When Martin tries to offset the statistics with such personal observations, his economists sometimes complain that he has not given enough weight to the staff's figures. At such times, Martin likes to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton to show that he, too, takes his polling modestly: "A drunkard uses...
Caravelle Camaraderie. Such uncommon pressures unite the newsmen to an uncommon degree. They work hard and go their separate ways on separate assignments. But when they meet and unwind-in the field, in their homes or in the camaraderie of the Hotel Caravelle's eighth-floor bar-they pool...
Illumination soft as starshine can be focused on one end of a six-inch glass tube, where it knocks electrons loose from a photosensitive layer of cesium and antimony. The free electrons are whisked to the opposite end of the tube by powerful electrostatic charges and they hit the far...
"Just Too Much." Discontent with the Sultan of Brunei's corrupt, inefficient and autocratic regime had long been festering in the tiny, Delaware-sized territory. Last year the Sultan's government spent only $50,000 on drugs and medicine for its people, while laying out $47,000 for...