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Campbell's answer to my query began: "I'm typing this while flying on a plane from Johannesburg to Accra. Three days ago I was on the east coast of Africa, in Nairobi. To ' go from Nairobi to Accra via Johannesburg may seem like a roundabout way, but actually it's the quickest. To fly straight across would have meant hanging around the Belgian Congo for air connections. There is no good east-west trans-Africa air schedule...
Last week Ho Chi Minh, IndoChina's Red leader, in a roundabout reply to questions from Stockholm's liberal Expresses, announced scornfully that if France, "having learned the lessons of these years of war, wishes to have an armistice, [we] will be ready to meet the French proposal." The conditions? Said Ho: "The French government has to stop hostilities." In Paris, one Cabinet minister remarked that Ho's terms should not be considered, and was sharply rebuked by Premier Laniel's office. The proposal, said the chairman of the Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, should...
...bets were quickly forgotten when the driver of a car stopped, asked directions to a hotel in Mexico City and invited Delgado to show the way. He got in, directed the driver by a roundabout route while asking for a job as chauffeur during the visitors' stay. The visitors were a MARCH OF TIME crew. Delgado got a temporary job with them, proved himself so invaluable that he has been with TIME Inc. ever since...
...around Pittsburgh for six months. "The third day I had the cab job, a man asked me to drive him and his son (the patient) to an insane asylum about 15 miles away. I was so new I didn't know the way. I took him such a roundabout route that I was conscience-stricken at the end of the ride and deducted 60? from the $14.60 fare...
...City scene. Gone are the dog sellers of Madero Avenue, the guitar-strumming trios who once worked the suburban bus lines, the evangelistas (professional letter writers) who held forth in a plaza near the presidential palace. The mosaic-tiled promenades in the parks, where boy met girl in evening roundabout strolls as stylized as ballet, are deserted; nowadays, boy blows auto horn summoning dark-eyed beauty to drive off to the nearest cabaret or lovers' lane...