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Five years ago, even a child could tell: the American tourist was the middle-aged fellow in the sponge-soled shoes, the one who had not come to Europe to share his bathroom with a whole hotel and was not about to leave until he got a snap of the Mona Lisa, and not behind glass either. These days, however, the camera-carrying, sports-shirt-wearing crowd is more likely to hail from Munich or Marseille...
Fake or real, one of the most popular items on Manhattan's First and Second Avenues these days is a pointing hand. Some people seem to think it a hilariously original way to show guests the way to the bathroom...
...fraction of their true salaries, and are paid the rest in "black money." In swift raids in Bombay, the revenuers picked up $777,000. Biggest haul came from the home of Actress Mala Sinha, where $250,000 was found in a safe in the ceiling of her ornate bathroom and another $100,000 in a bag that Mala's mother had in her hand as she tiptoed out the back door. A bottle of liquor was found, which is also a crime under Bombay's prohibition laws. But the cops thought they had done enough to poor Mala...
...decrease in certain enzymes, but no one is sure). So some make a fetish of avoiding chocolate, or uncooked cucumbers, or all cucumbers, or uncooked cabbage, or all cabbage. Then there is the fellow who loudly proclaims, "I can eat anything"-and then slips off to the bathroom for a dollop of soda bicarb...
...weather-beaten monument in Stanleyville's Lumumba Square is wreathed in a spray of faded plastic flowers and surrounded by white bathroom tiles. It consists of a crude glass-encased portrait showing a goateed man, whose left hand rests on a multicolored globe. A rusty sign, rising from a scraggly bed of petunias, proclaims: "Here is the monument of the Liberator of the Congo, Premier Patrice Emery Lumumba, Hero of Independence and of Unity, assassinated 18 January 1961 in Katanga...