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...influence, all edged with a ferocity and fecundity that is uniquely Filipino. The crooning of a tuko lizard in the night forests of Cavite is counterpointed by the rattle of gunfire as a cigarette-smuggling speedboat runs a customs blockade offshore. The big beat of jukeboxes in Manila's waterfront dives does not quite drown out the clink of cocktail glasses at the opulent Army-Navy Club. Manila newspapers splash crime news in Hechtian hyperbole across their front pages...
...stark contrast is the Tondo slum on Manila's northern waterfront ? a maze of alleys, mud-floored huts, hovels built from packing cases. Some 8,000 pushcarts roll through Tondo in search of trash and scrap paper, the collection of which is the district's principal occupation. Tondo's kids are a combination of the worst in American and Asian street gangs: the "Canto Boys," with their distinctive madre tattoos, would as soon knife a stranger as zip-gun a passing police...
...whisks diners to a restaurant 3,700 ft. up the side of Grouse Mountain, overlooking the lights of the busiest harbor on the entire West Coast and a forest of apartment towers on English Bay that give the city the look of a northern Rio. Downtown, the old waterfront is getting a face lift, and the commercial center a cluster of towers, one of which would be ideal for the Bank of British Columbia that Bennett promises...
...avocation, and the precautions taken reflected the nation's interest. Highway 1 was swept beforehand by troops of the national police. U.S. Marine checkpoints were ordered to flash word ahead as the cyclists hove into view. When the arrangements were complete, the entrants gathered on Danang's waterfront. With the starting gun, they pumped briskly off, preceded by a jeepload of tour officials clearing puzzled drivers off the highway with a red flag and siren...
Conquering Distrust. For the 52-year-old writer, the workshop at Watts has been his toughest task since the days when he prowled the docks gathering material for the screenplay of On the Waterfront. When the Westminster Association announced his first class, ten young Negroes signed up, but only two bothered to show. Undiscouraged, Schulberg kept at it, eventually conquered the distrust of his students. Now he has 18 regulars, ranging from boys in their teens to unemployed rniddle-aged workers...