Word: macao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France for the past four years, was invented by a firm that sounds as if it had been founded by Jules Verne; Compagnie d'Applications Mecaniques à 1'Electronique au Cinéma et à 1'Atomistique (CAMECA). Since then it has spread from Marseilles to Macao; Nikita Khrushchev even has one, loaded with Marxian uplift featurettes. Actually, Scopitone's "musies" are descended from U.S. Soundies, which during World War II filled bus terminals and B-girl grottoes with grainy, black-and-white productions of The Flat Foot Floogee with the Floy Floy...
...Sunday Times asked Author Fleming to take a round-the-world tour to write some local-color travel pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom. Honolulu he found "just another reservation for the pensioners," which he left "without many regrets." Berlin's night life "is certainly not what it used to be." In New York...
...evening's reading. Our overseas correspondents file 975,000 words a month. Most of the words come from our 43 regular staff correspondents abroad, the rest from our valued, though little-sung, 120 part-time correspondents (or "stringers") in such out-of-the-way places as Zanzibar, Sarawak, Macao and Katmandu...
...Says one expert on China's agriculture: "In the debris of the Great Leap Forward, compulsion cannot work. All that is left is persuasion." Most peasants are convinced nonetheless that they are in for a far more rigorous existence; many each week are still fleeing the mainland. In Macao, where he sought refuge after swimming six hours across the Pearl River delta, a handsome, husky-looking youth from Kwangtung province shrugged last week: "What can you do? How can you move? It's like a heavy stone crushing...
...mine-or so South Korea's ruling junta thought when it dreamed up Walker Hill, a sprawling, 156-acre complex of gaming tables and hot-pillow hotels designed to entice the tourist trade and, not incidentally, the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in Korea. Out to Manila and Macao went the call for croupiers, and four Americans from Las Vegas moved in to manage the action. But when it opened up ten miles outside Seoul last week, the Monte Carlo of the Orient proved to be little more than a $5,000,000 bingo parlor with soda fountains...