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Last week word of Hong Kong's bargains had spread so widely that the city's hotels were swamped. Only five hotels (mostly of prewar vintage) are rated first-class, and their 760 rooms all have waiting lists. On their way to visit President Eisenhower in Washington last month, the King and Queen of Nepal had to put up in a third-class hotel. In third-class hotels (and even in second-class), bell boys freely peddle the services of call girls. Another traveler, in desperation, spent the night at the Shanghai Bathhouse and Massage Parlor near...
Thinking every man as good as the next, the prewar Australian worker was a passionate believer in class warfare and working-class solidarity. Australia got its first Labor Prime Minister in 1904, 20 years before Britain. Labor unions acquired a major voice in government and a death grip on the economy. The worst sin in the Australian calendar was scabbing, and the prevailing work pace was one that G.I.s came to call "the Australian crawl...
...Fellows were diverted just as neatly from other careers. Frank Wadsworth, a wartime test pilot who wanted to go on flying, is now a Shakespearean scholar at the University of California. And William M. Meredith, poet and English professor at Connecticut College, was won away from his prewar reporting job on the New York Times...
Behind the violence at Amiens lay a desperate effort by France's right wing to strike back at Charles de Gaulle on the mainland. They were on the run in Algeria-the bastion from which they had defied the prewar Third Republic and toppled the Fourth. By last week De Gaulle had: CJ Scrapped the 100,000-man Algerian Home Guard, whose members manned most of the barricades in the recent insurrection...
Overall, Japan's new fishing methods have produced spectacular results. The 1958 catch (latest for which figures are available) came from all over the earth and exceeded the biggest prewar catch by 900,000 tons...