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Sidewalks are filled with bundle-laden shoppers, and store windows beckon with imported washers, steam irons, refrigerators and TV sets. Outside town, barefoot peasants pad along the dusty roads with $40 Sony transistor radios slung over their shoulders. "Prices are steep," admitted one merchant, "but that's what people are paying." New Experience. Prosperity is a new experience for Guatemala, which scraped along for years in the banana-republic image-without industry, unable to import what it wanted, or even pay for what it did buy. During the regime of cantankerous old Ydígoras, graft and inefficiency, those...
...Hank, wait a minute! But Hank Bauer had already picked up his towel, slung it over his shoulder, and was striding toward the shower...
Polly (played by Shelley Winters) was born in 1900 in a White Russian ghetto. Her father, a tailor, decided to send his children one by one to "the golden land," and when Polly was twelve she arrived in America with everything she had in the world slung over her shoulder in a potato sack. At 16 she was working in a Brooklyn sweatshop. At 18 she was raped, or so she claimed. At 21 she became a madam by mistake...
...everybody except bandits and smugglers. For more than a decade, the most notorious bandit in the area has been Mehmet Ihsan Kilit, known throughout Turkey simply as "Kocero." He usually looked like a walking arsenal, with bandoleers of cartridges over his chest, binoculars dangling from his neck, a rifle slung over his shoulder, and a hunting knife or a revolver seemingly glued to his hand. He was believed to have killed at least half a dozen...
...tumult and the clamor have been going on ever since Tokyo began rebuilding the wreckage of World War II. But the phons intensified as the Olympics neared. The problem was the low-slung nature of Tokyo itself: a megalopolis covering a radius of about 65 miles, with sidewalkless streets barely broad enough for two rickshas to pass cautiously, most of them lined with open-fronted shoe stores, rice stores, restaurants, confectionaries, raw-fish shops...