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...promisingly seedy setting for John Osborne's latest play, which opened last week to culminate the London summer season. The locale and title are West of Suez-a former British outpost in the Caribbean, now underrun by surly native administrators and overrun by American tourists. Four English sisters, their spouses and assorted hangers-on have gathered at a villa for a holiday with the sisters' father, an aging, eminent writer (Ralph Richardson). The whole crowd is psychologically on the lam, morally lying low, parceling out a diminishing stock of options while they keep a furtive lookout for some...
...inevitable until the Protestant Reformation once again demanded ruthless punishments. Another crusade, this one in the American West and aimed at the new Holy Land of the frontier, drew its camp followers just as surely. The sporting house and the saloon became the social centers of many an outpost and booming new metropolis from the Alleghenies to the Yukon; most splendid of them all was the famous Everleigh Club, a 50-room mansion in Chicago, where for $50 a night minimum, guests were regaled with champagne from golden buckets and fountains gushed perfume at regular intervals...
...along the 40-mile stretch below the DMZ, from the South China Sea to the blue-tinged Annamite mountains of western Quang Tri province, are now manned by ARVN 1st Infantry troops and Marines. In a month or two, G.I.s will be pulled out of the seventh position, an outpost near the coast called Alpha 1, and the U.S. 5th Mechanized Division will leave its headquarters in Quang Tri city. A few Americans will stay on at the DMZ fire bases to tend complex optical and radar equipment. But the South Vietnamese will be substantially defending their own northern border...
VIENTIANE. the administrative capital of Laos, is small, tired city of 130,000 people. Three main streets, each with about 10 shops, run through the town. It is a city with little in the way of grandeur, having been the furthest, last, and least developed outpost of French colonialism...
...loneliest, most remote spots on earth, and the loneliest of all is Gan, a dot of coral only 1¾ miles long in the Maldives, 700 miles southwest of Ceylon, 42 miles below the equator, and 2,200 miles east of Africa. For a view of that farthest-flung outpost of a vanishing empire, TIME Correspondent John Blashill recently visited Gan. His report...