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...champagne and drinks even before takeoff; gifts like pens or complete leather toilet sets are distributed on every flight to first-class passengers. SIA is spending $30 million to build what it calls the world's largest flight kitchen. Meals are served by stewardesses dressed in Paris-designed sarong kebayas, the Singapore national dress. The company sends the stewardesses to finishing school, gives them professional training in grooming and pays their dental bills for regular teeth cleanings-but absolutely forbids them to accept dates with passengers. Cabin crews are larger than on most carriers, and best...
...somehow avoiding a collision. They hop and leap, pony tails bobbing, mouths agape, chanting, "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare..." The energy ripples through the congregation. A man violently rocks from his waist up, glazed eyes bobbing above a limber neck. A swaying woman, dressed in a sarong, catches a red carnation. She closes her eyes, smells the flower, grins and flings it to someone else. A woman devotee bounces with her baby's face pressed in her sarong. Another child hops at her feet, his hands thrust to the ceiling. A devotee jumps from alongside the altar...
...Karenni agent in Mae Sariang, a small Thai border town, has operated there for nearly 30 years, almost with the rank of honorary consul. A gray-haired gentleman, he emerges from his teakwood house in cardigan and sarong. Inside, on a wall, is a photograph of him shaking hands with a U.S. ambassador, and a U.S. medal for services to the hill tribes. "Goodness gracious," he says in mellifluous Raj English, when asked about the medal, "I don't know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves...
...Years ago at Paramount, I'd find out about Road pictures from a street sweeper at the studio," recalled Dorothy Lamour, 60, who as a girl of 22 made the sarong famous. "He'd sweep under the open windows where the executives met, listen in and pick up all the latest details." Lamour's old studio contact is long gone, but her co-stars in seven previous Road movies (including Road to Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this...
...population of 58 million in the West. In Brit ish India days, the western reaches of what is now West Pakistan formed the frontier of the empire, and the British trained the energetic Punjabis and Pathans as soldiers. They scorn the lungi, a Southeast Asian-style sarong worn by the Bengalis. "In the East," a West Pakistani saying has it, "the men wear the skirts and the women the pants. In the West, things are as they should...