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...years old and an elder in Pyongyang's West Gate Presbyterian Church. Elder La met his first Russian in September 1945. The Russian was a cheerful, blond young soldier, and he asked Elder La's help in haggling for an apple with a fruit vendor. Elder La tried to ask the soldier the meaning of the green hatbands worn by some of the Russian officers, but he couldn't seem to make the soldier understand his question...
...news vendor known as "Jerry" is reported to have a monopoly on the publication. His stand is located on Elm Street, directly in front of the New Haven Railroad Station, and observers estimated that he sold over 500 copies of the issue on the first day it reached the city...
This afternoon the band will play Harvardiana, a vendor will sell a proud father a Crimson pennant, a hundred cocktail glasses will be broken, someone's grand father will be sick, and some touchdowns will be scored...
...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
Piraquas & Manure. Garbage cans line the curb, from many of them refuse spills over on to the sidewalk. A fire burns in a cluttered gutter. A honking car scatters a game of stick ball in the street. On the corner, a cart vendor sells piraguas (shaved ice flavored with colored sirup) for 3? a cup. An old woman scrambles on her hands & knees under a horse-drawn cart, scooping fresh manure into a cardboard...