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Dale has a unique fascination that seems to combine his two major interests-an entire wall in his room is covered with pictures of cats. "Cats remind me of the Orient with their sort of slanted eyes and are well-coordinated and graceful," he explained. "So you might say that they tie Chinese and basketball together. In my courses. I study Chinese, and on the basketball floor. I try to be well-coordinated and graceful...
...believe, will TIME'S readers see that evidence in the cover story written by Timothy James and researched by Marion Knox. Tim and Marion have yet to make their first visit to Japan, but Senior Editor Ronald Kriss qualifies as an old hand in the Orient after military service in the 1950s plus a Pulitzer traveling scholarship; in fact, his first child was born in Tokyo...
...Such a change "would help to re-orient the all-too-awesome qualities of the Review, emphasizing what is done instead of who does it," the committee said in its statement...
...emptied Mother out and replaced her with some hot pot. The police get into the act and the chase runs from London to Paris to Istanbul, and finally to Paraguay. Greene is not only putting the reader on. He is putting himself on. We are back in The Orient Express (Greene's fourth novel), but an Orient Express without the Conrad Veidt monocles or the concupiscent dancers in the wagonlit. Just the respectable Mr. Pulling, smoking his first stick of pot, gift of an American girl who calls herself Tooley. With a boy friend who paints Brand X soup...
...Northwest, which is the most profitable of the eleven U.S. trunk lines, wants with the money-losing carrier. St. Paul-based Northwest has earned more than $50 million in each of the past three years, flying high on routes that link the U.S. East and West coasts with the Orient. Boston-based Northeast is an odd amalgam of New England regional service, commuter runs to New York and Washington and vacation routes to Florida, Bermuda and the Bahamas. Its services to the South attract heavy traffic in the winter months, and little but heavy expenses the rest of the year...