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...Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown's Body...
Meanwhile, Hong Kong's other utility unions-telephone, light, power and gas-restively awaited the outcome of their own demands for wage increases. "We must give moral support to the tramway workers," said one union boss. "If they fail we are bound to collapse. Our strike is not political; we have wives and children to care for." At week's end, Hong Kong's colonial government announced that it had assumed sweeping emergency powers, including the right to requisition manpower, bar strikes and lockouts. This may have pleased Hong Kong's employers, but the chances were...
Last week, Un Tramway Nommé Désir rolled into Paris in the costliest production ever given a U.S. play in France. Adapter-Producer Jean Cocteau, Parisian jack-of-all-arts, had treated it to a few touches of his own. In each seduction scene, a spotlight shifted to a Negro woman doing a belly dance in the background. Cocteau had also salted the dialogue. One critic noted that he had used "merde at least ten times, and it was one of the milder expressions...
...critics managed to look unblinkingly shocked. Sample, from Le Figaro: "Stripteases, bizarre morbidities, riots, drunken orgies, poker parties, shriekings, eroticism . . . obscenities and rapes, with just a bit of sexual deviation tossed in for good measure . . . Two years of fighting in line before countless theaters in two hemispheres for this tramway seems a strange kind of lunacy...
Then there's always the Skimobile at North Conway and the Aerial Tramway at Cannon Mountain, which provide passengers with magnificent views unobtainable at lower levels...