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Travel in Europe follows well-worn paths in and out of cathedrals, galleries, great museums and famous restaurants. The U.S. visitor is culturally never very far from home. But the Far East is a plunge into the strange and unfamiliar. Music suddenly becomes an atonal screeching; men bow instead of shaking hands, sit cross-legged on the floor to eat dinner and mostly wear twisted cloths or even skirts instead of trousers. The straight lines of Western architecture are replaced by curlicues and curves; landscapes become shrouded in Oriental mist; night sounds have an uneasy difference. And poverty...
...hotel, the cab driver offers his services as guide, confidant and business agent. Climbing the broad stairs to the lobby of the popular, 274-room Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, which commands an unrivaled view of Hong Kong itself banked against the Peak across the harbor, the visitor is surrounded by shop after shop selling bargain-priced brocades, silks, cameras, pearls, jade, tape recorders, linens, carved ivory and inlaid furniture...
Said a recent U.S. visitor: "Hong Kong is just a city you like. You arrive, and you fall in love with it the way you do with San Francisco or Paris...
...childless, turned up in Las Vegas in the unlikely company of TV's Wyatt Earping Actor Hugh O'Brian, 33. Heading for the gaming tables, Soraya professed herself a greenhorn at the deceptively simple game of blackjack. Soon relieved of about $40 by his beautiful visitor, Soraya's casino host sportingly volunteered: "She seemed to count pretty good." O'Brian, asked if he had serious matrimonial designs on his date, drawled: "You'd better ask the princess." Soraya, once a queen but never a princess, only smiled mysteriously. When Romano Mussolini...
Surrounded by a flock of wazirs (councilors) everywhere he went, he blessed thousands of faithful followers, who fought to touch his hand and besieged him with requests. The visitor listened gravely, kept three secretaries busy handling his replies. For the 20 million members of the Ismaili Moslem sect face challenging times, and their new Imam was determined to lead them well. "All that really matters for me is my work.'' says 23-year-old Karim Aga Khan. "All the rest is tripe...