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...Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter) first told his sentimental fable of the Marseilles waterfront as a trio of plays, then as a charming film trilogy in the early 19305. Theatergoers will remember with no leap of the heart that by 1954 Fanny had become an overweight Broadway musical. Inexplicably encouraged, Director Josh Logan set about making a new screen version, having prudently purchased the assurance that Pagnol's trilogy would not be shown concurrently...
...gimlet-eyed money-changers on Hong Kong's Connaught Road and along the nearby Macao waterfront traditionally buy-at carefully reckoned prices-even the most dubious currencies. But last week they were shaking their heads at fishermen and smugglers selling Communist China's yuan. For the yuan had dropped to an alltime low. It began its spectacular decline last year, took its biggest plunge since January, when the news of China's food shortages first leaked out. Overall, it has dropped 50% in value from a year ago; buyers can get all they want...
Zanzibar, to the north, is like neither Madagascar nor Tanganyika. Once the major headquarters for Arab slavers, it is a lady island, pungent with the odor of cloves and the glamour of Araby. Tourists can ride the streets in dilapidated rickshas, visit the old Arab waterfront fort and the harbor, where old wooden dhows with odd-looking lateen sails load up for trips to the mainland. They can buy French perfumes, Indian craft jewelry, or copies of the famed, huge oaken "elephant doors," which are covered with spikes to keep elephants from leaning on them. They are an unusual curio...
...anything come out of the rehabilitation program," Whitlock added, "it's good for everybody concerned." In exchange for property nearer the University, it would free the waterfront area for parks and schools, he pointed...
...building was off 20%), communities are still going up at an amazing rate. The biggest, General Development's Port Charlotte on the lower west coast, has mushroomed from vacant land to a city of 7,000 in four years, is planned to hit 750,-ooo. The scramble for waterfront lots is so great that builders are turning parts of the state into little Venices, pushing fingers of land out into waterways and interlacing them with canals so that everyone can moor his boat at his own front door. The housing industry's hard-sell tactics, full of gimmicks...