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...their D.I.s strut and chant like U.S. marines, all very sharp. On the air route from the east, there is a brand-new jet base at San Isidro, about 15 miles from Ciudad Trujillo, with what looked like 8,000-9,000-ft. run, ways and high-speed taxi strips. What is more, Trujillo's navy actually sails-one or two of the frigates were constantly on the horizon while I was there...
...punished taxi murderers, took the youth off the streets, organized sea voyages for workers...
...decade later the country still had only one mile of paved highway. The capital of Monrovia was a shanty town with no hotel, no telephone system, no restaurant, and not a single taxi. Electricity burned feebly two hours at night, the city had no running-water system at all, and the whole country was dependent on the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and its vast (100,000 acres) rubber concession. Elsewhere in Africa, schools, roads and hospitals were being built, but Liberia, as one Liberian diplomat wryly explained, "had not had the benefits of colonialism...
...Chiang Kaishek, described in André Malraux's novel Man's Fate. Liu's first wife reportedly tried to commit suicide at the party's underground headquarters, and he hired a ricksha to take her to the doctor. When criticized for not ordering a taxi in such an emergency, Liu, true to his doctrinaire code, coldly replied that it might have drawn the attention of the police and endangered the party operation...
...boys run the politics as well as the boom. But even in the sparsely populated (116,530) Bahamas, the dreams that drove colonials to greater measures of self-government elsewhere in the old British Empire are stirring. Last year, at the beginning of the winter season, Nassau's taxi drivers, bus boys, power-plant workers and construction workers walked out on strike (TIME, Jan. 27, 1958). Members of the Progressive Liberal Party, they struck mostly for fairer polling laws, and they won a few concessions; e.g., men of property, who formerly could vote in every constituency where they owned...