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...Communists and the Nationalist forces under Chiang Kaishek. Never was a plan more tragically ill conceived, but Good Soldier Marshall did his best with it. Eleven months later he bitterly returned to the U.S. to admit the complete failure that he always suspected would attend his efforts in the Orient...
...American argues that similar increases can be expected in world air traffic if rates are cut. The airline recently completed a jet study that forecast a 65%-to-80% increase in passenger traffic between North America and the Orient over the next three years, if fares are reduced...
...last May postponed his leave-taking after the death of Assistant Secretary Donald Quarles. McElroy, who spent much of his 27 months in office on far-ranging inspection tours, will make time to get just one more trip under his belt-to Alaska, Honolulu, the western Pacific and the Orient-before slipping back in late December to Procter & Gamble...
...biggest religious festivals in Ceylon is Esala Perahera, held each year for centuries in honor of the tooth of Buddha, which is enshrined in Kandy, Ceylon. While the densely packed pilgrims from all across the Orient press close, torchbearers and musicians swirl round a procession of painted elephants. Last week's Perahera drew a crowd of 100,000 Buddhists-and twice it turned into a milling nightmare...
...dashing pushcarts sat Tiki gods and aloha shirts, maki sushi and hibiscus plants. Through the aisles milled thousands of customers as varied and colorful as the more than 10,000 items stacked neatly on the shelves. They bore in their faces the mien and colors of all the Orient, wore cool-looking shorts, dresses and muumuus of every bright color, stepped lightly in street shoes, sandals, even bare feet. Thus last week, in casual Hawaiian fashion, the newest citizens of the U.S. welcomed the newest branch of an old American institution: F. W. Woolworth's five-and-dime store...