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...role as dictator, Ayub is still no politician; but his willingness to grapple with Pakistan's staggering problems has aroused enthusiasm. A New York Times correspondent notes a new air of "civic virtue" among the rickshaw men, beggars and merchants of Karachi...
...travel out, whether by rickshaw, Volks-wagen or the Belmont bus, to the Fresh Pond rotary and you will find Cambridge's own mecca for fanciers of Mandarin treats such as Moo Shi pork, and hot and sour Peking soup. A dish that particularly recommends itself is Joyce Chen special shrimp--a specialty of the house, of course, because it bears the name of the proprietor...
...mattered little that BB's movie, En Cas de Malheur (In Case of Emergency), a Georges Simenon story about a successful lawyer's fatal obsession with a young slut failed to win (and that Japans "Rickshaw Man" did). A traveling movie fan named Elsa Maxwell just about guaranteed Malheur's American triumph by announcing: "Bardot is a nothing, a sexual little kitten of no importance. She has no talent except for undressing onscreen. This is a very bad thing for American youth...
There was the day when he arrived in Shanghai, not knowing a soul, nor a word of the language: "Hardly had I climbed into a rickshaw than I saw riding in another along the Bund a Negro who looked exactly like a Harlemite. I stood up in my rickshaw and yelled. 'Hey man!' He stood up in his rickshaw and yelled, 'What ya sayin'?' We passed each other in the crowded street, and I never saw him again...
Begging for Jobs. Between April and last month, 500,000 peasants were sent back to their villages. In one month, 35,000 pedicab and rickshaw men "volunteered" to migrate to northern Kiangsu; in one day 4,000 sampan dwellers left for inland cities. The government press reported proudly that 80% of the city's university students and flocks of physicians were begging for frontier jobs...