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Hiding the Hippies. The wedding bill came to $9.5 million-no mean effort for a country whose 10 million people get by on a yearly per capita income of $77. In Katmandu, roads were widened and repaved, street lamps were installed, and Nepalese workmen painted over everything in sight, including the bronze statues of the Rana prime ministers. A new $2 million royal palace was rushed to completion to dazzle an anticipated crush of 3,000 foreign guests. The Nepalese cleared out the shaggiest of the Western hippies, who come to Katmandu to get high on the altitude and cheap...
...theme of Expo '70 is progress and harmony, but last week the fairgrounds seemed to reflect paltry progress and considerable confusion. Workmen darted among unfinished buildings. Girl guides drilled in mini-toga uniforms. Postmen roared around on scarlet scooters, learning their routes. Policemen studied plans for coping with the expected influx of pickpockets and prostitutes...
...gentle Senri Hills just outside Osaka, under a pall of dust visible for miles away, helmeted workmen are bustling to put the finishing touches on what looks like a giant's toy box. Here, three weeks hence, Japan's Expo '70 will begin a six-month run. It is the first world's fair ever to be held in Asia, but amid its architectural anarchy the occasional pagoda or the batwing sail of a Chinese junk seems oddly out of place?and time. From one end of the 815-acre site to the other, the skyline is a futurescape...
Soothsayer's Warning. In the two weeks since the riots, Marcos-the Philippines' most decorated war hero-has holed up in Malacanang as if it were the Alamo. The charming old Spanish colonial palace has become a fortress. Workmen have welded closed two of its four massive entrance gates. Armed guards patrol the Pasig riverfront; soldiers in combat dress and plainclothesmen, guns bulging under their loose-fitting barong tagalog shirts, are all over the Malacanang's banyan-shaded grounds...
...workers, some other Communists have been less considerate. Pathet Lao troops shot up a U.S. training camp two miles from the Nam Ngum Dam site in Laos, creating apprehension among Japanese engineers and foremen. A brighter sign is that Communist forces privately promised not to bother the Laotian workmen...