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Regrettably, visitors often lose more than their minds. A charming but light-fingered people, Neapolitans relieve their guests of everything from cars and clothes to wallets and women. The police labor mightily but in vain. Last week 110 men accused of stealing hundreds of cars languished in jail as they awaited trial. Even in their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night...
...through the steel and concrete skeletons of one of Latin America's biggest housing projects-52 apartment towers, each twelve stories high, rising over 30 acres on the outskirts of Lima to provide government housing for 10,000 people. Stepping lightly across an open trench, a well-dressed visitor fell into step beside the chief engineer and started firing intense questions. "Is it going fast enough?" he demanded. "What are your problems?" "Are you getting all the help you need?" Everything was on schedule, replied the engineer. As the two circled the project, workers on the scaffolding overhead clapped...
Straightening up, the visitor cupped his hand slightly and delivered the forward chop of his arm that is his symbol. "Adelante," he said. Forward...
...civil rights worker stays in the Sough a year," he explained, "he accumulates a lot more nervous tension than a visitor," But Davis most respected the "Negroes who live there, whose homes and businesses are there...
...country and situation like Mozambique, what kind of man becomes a revolutionary? Jamie Siguake, a visitor at the University last month, is one example. Sharpened by a life of struggling against the restrictions that face all Africans in countries dominated by white minorities and hardened by more than two years in Portuguese prisons, Sigauke has the toughness required of a revolutionary. But it is the toughness of determination, not of vindictiveness. "We will shoot their [the Portuguese] soldiers like flies," Siguake says, "but when they cry 'Peace,' we will be the first to welcome them into a new society...