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Manila still impresses a visitor as an intensely Catholic and traditional city. It must be one of the few places in the world since the end of the Second Vatican Council where a Wednesday night novena can snarl traffic for miles around. The ramshackle old houses in the central city still contrast as sharply as ever with the gleaming villas in the new suburb of Makati, where private security guards carrying carbines patrol outside the smart shops. One notable change, though, is the whitewashed cleanliness of city walls that once were covered with revolutionary slogans and anti-Marcos graffiti. They...
...Eastern Europe without first stocking up on home-produced articles: textiles, sunglasses and playing cards for Rumania; shirts, shoes, socks and blue jeans for the Soviet Union; fruits for East Germany; bras, corsets and panty hose for Hungary; shoes, textiles and auto parts for Bulgaria. The enterprising Czech visitor either sells the articles for local currency or barters them for liquor in Rumania, coffee, vodka, car parts and a portable color-TV set in the Soviet Union, salami in Hungary, and curtain material in East Germany-all of which he either keeps or resells back home in Prague for three...
...Shake it off. It can't be that bad: It's at least two feet from your heart," Kincaid responded, Hudson underwent surgery Tuesday and is resting comfortably but he still refuses to allow Kincaid as a visitor...
...Blitz. Israelis stationed overseas have come to feel like frontline combatants in what one Tel Aviv columnist calls "our new war of attrition." They are provided with government security suggestions that cover four pages. Embassies and consulates have been converted into veritable fortresses; in Manhattan, for instance, a potential visitor to the Israeli consulate not only has to pass a policeman but also faces locked doors, and must identify himself over an intercom before he is allowed to enter. In a European school for 1,500 Jewish children, security men have joined the faculty this term as coaches or "assistant...
...oldtime Arizonan, when asked by a visitor what the Arizonans did when the temperatures reach 115 , answered, "Hell, we just go out on the porch, take off our skin and sit around in our bones...