Word: lascar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China. Not until last week did the State Department belatedly drop its total prohibition against such imports and declare that returning tourists may bring back $100 worth of Chinese merchandise (see THE NATION). The dispensation delighted shopkeepers in Singapore and along Hong Kong's sleazy Upper and Lower Lascar Row ("Cat Street"). In some of the larger Peking-controlled emporiums in Hong Kong, English-speaking shopgirls stood like smiling spring flowers beneath red banners and Mao portraits, waiting to take some of the capital out of the capitalist...
Died. Frank E. ("Pappy") Noel, 61, Associated Press war photographer since 1937, who was torpedoed after escaping the fall of Singapore in 1942 (got a classic shot of a Lascar seaman in a lifeboat begging for water), covered Malaya, Burma, the Middle East, Europe and finally Korea, where he was captured, imprisoned for three years, somehow acquired a camera, and even conned his Chinese captors into letting him send pictures back to the U.S.; of a stroke; in Gainesville...