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...Roundup. During Christmas week, police and plainclothesmen swarmed into De Walletjes and rounded up a collection of pimps with such names as Fat Rinus, Piglet and Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...
...ROUNDUP OF THE BRITISH WEEKLIES...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A trip to Mysore, India, for a Wild Elephant Roundup...
Sorry you did not point out the accomplishment of the old pioneer of them all in your Aug. 31 roundup of newly instituted training programs for Americans overseas. Founded in 1946, thus significantly antedating The Ugly American and other stimuli, the American Institute for Foreign Trade at Phoenix. Ariz, now has approximately 700 graduates living and working abroad in 70 countries of the free world...
...Laotian capital of Vientiane, Phoui ordered a roundup of top Laotian Communists, including the biggest of them all, Red Prince Souphanouvong, nephew of Laos' ailing, 74-year-old king. The royal Laotian army, though hampered by a communications system that in forward jungle areas consists of runners carrying messages in cleft sticks, slowly succeeded in reconquering most of the lost villages. Early last week Vientiane reported that the bulk of the Communist forces had apparently withdrawn, leaving behind 1,000 men "to conduct political activity and prepare for the next action by Communist troops...