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...Pryor ("a very close and gratifying friendship"). Yes, he had accepted a couple of Pan Am airplane rides-once when he was traveling on Senate business about the airline bill, once when he went down to Sam Pryor's "very modest bungalow-type house" at Florida's Kobe Sound, "in Senator Pepper's area." (Snorted Democrat Pepper, a committee member, "The kind of people who live [there] don't usually vote...
...around the prewar world, nor in the prewar way. Passengers will not be encouraged to stay ashore overnight in the Orient. And no more can they stop over anywhere they like, catch the next ship that strikes their fancy. Out are such favorite prewar diversions as getting off at Kobe, going by rail and small boat to Korea, then to Peiping to see the Temple of Heaven, then buzzing down to gaudy Shanghai to pick up the same Dollar liner they left at Kobe...
Ozone & Indigestion. Nowhere will going ashore be the fun it used to be. In Honolulu, food is scarce, as are rooms in the newly reopened Royal Hawaiian Hotel (on famed Waikiki Beach); auto rental rates are $30 for the first day, $20 for each day thereafter. Yokohama and Kobe are cities of beaten peoples, littered streets...
...tourist center of Hiroshima with parks, broad avenues and a memorial hall to world amity. Chief booster was the city's assistant mayor, who played third base on the newly formed baseball team. (Brightly colored posters tacked to dead trees last week announced a doubleheader with the Osaka-Kobe team...
...jampacked industrial cities are wrecked: Kobe 56%, Nagasaki 30%, Nagoya 31%, Osaka 26%, Yokohama 44%. Of Japan's important cities only one was untouched: Kyoto, the shrine city, apparently spared for psychological reasons...