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...last week chanted prayers to the pulsating tick-tock of sticks beating on fish-shaped wooden blocks. Throngs of Chinese paraded through downtown streets carrying huge paper dragons representing the rain god, and the blare of drums, gongs and cymbals exhorted the heavens to send rain. When a brief shower dampened Hong Kong one afternoon, marking the first rainfall in six months, men and women clapped their hands and shouted...
...Indispensable Step." Many Latin American nations have not carried out the reforms that are to be their contribution to the Alliance, and the U.S. has not come through with the shower of wealth the Latin Americans hoped for. In a speech before the Economic Club of Chicago last week, David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, got down to the fundamental role of private enterprise in the Alliance. "It is true, of course," said Rockefeller, "that government can and should supply many of the facilities and services that are prerequisites to progress. I would not argue for a reduction...
...FAUCETS. With rare exceptions, bathroom faucets all used to turn one way-counterclockwise for on, clockwise off-something a man with soap in his eyes could rely on as he groped for the hot water faucet in the shower. Then the designers got the modern impulse to get symmetrical, and devised matching handles that turned in opposite directions, toward or away from each other. No one knows which way is which until he tries...
Agung gave fair warning. Only last month, after more than 100 years of inactivity, it burst forth with a shower of smoke and brimstone that killed 17 persons. There was worried talk on Bali that the gods were angry because the people had not asked permission to hold their festival. But the priests and their disciples stayed on to pray. At 7 o'clock one morning, Agung erupted again. The villages of Sebudi, Sorgah, and Sebih were engulfed by a lethal black cloud of searing, 230° ash that roasted hundreds where they knelt. Rivers of grey-black lava...
...Purdah. The main dining room is for ladies alone or ladies with men. Lone males are barred. They must eat in the strictly misogynist grill or the large Madison Room,* where movies may be shown or the rug rolled back for dancing. Suburban wives have quarters where they can shower and change, retool the hairdo, or snooze awhile before meeting their Princetonian husbands for an evening on the town. And there have even been rumors that the club's three airconditioned squash courts might be made available to female racqueteers in off hours...