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...writers, well-heeled or well-married expatriates-are thoroughly respectable, thoroughly discreet, or sometimes both. But gossip is rampant, and everyone knows that Cuernavaca has a yeasty leavening of the oddities and eccentrics who also find their way to Capri, the CÓte d'Azur and other lotus-eaters' resorts of the world. If tales are sometimes .whispered of gay fiestas involving such narcotics as alcohol, opium and intellectual Communism, of ambisextrous wingdings and nudist bridge-and-bathing parties, who could be surprised? Cuernavaca, in fact, has been called "a sunny place for shady people." Propertied residents...
...crater-pocked streets," reported TIME Correspondent James Greenfield last week, "are filled with civilian cars and taxis again. Where they suddenly came from, nobody seems to know. Every afternoon Korean businessmen, shabby in their ill-fitting Western suits, gather in places like the Teahouse of the Opening Lotus to discuss Korea's future. In buildings all over the city, shivering workmen sigh with relief as glass windows go in for the first time in three years. By night, streets are alight with candles as Koreans, with small trays mounted on wooden tripods, offer candy, chewing gum, apples and cigarettes...
...villagers shower the arriving captain with gifts, among which is a Geisha girl named Lotus Blossom for his own exclusive use. Lotus Blossom is played by Mariko Niki, a lovely young Japanese actress who is fragially feminine and completely enchanting in the role...
...Lotus Blossom brings with her a host of problems in occupational diplomacy. The Women's League for Democratic Action accuses Fisby of discriminating against it, and demands that the G. girl give instruction in her art to all the village women...
...proud, overimaginative moneylender who keeps bank each day under a banyan tree. Margayya makes a good living from small loans, but he is not satisfied; he dreams of real wealth. The local priest advises Margayya to woo the gods with a special rite: mix the ashes of a red lotus with milk drawn from a smoke-colored cow. Sure enough, not long after, Margayya meets Dr. Pal, a sociologist who has written a book called Bed-Life, or the Science of Marital Happiness. The first chapters make Margayya blush, but they also make him want to read on. Then...