Word: trocadero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dying Flies. Twenty miles out of town, workmen were frantically erecting a village of prefab houses for the conference hangers-on. In the lobby of Bangkok's Trocadero Hotel, where the bigwigs are to stay, painters laid new colors on walls, ceiling and passing guests. In the upper stories, a grim-faced "sanitation engineer," armed with a huge, mechanical Flit-gun, mowed down his enemies by the thousands. "The flies are dying," cracked one preconference resident, "like hotel guests...