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...Olympics." Japan has spent nearly $2 billion to refurbish Tokyo for the Olympic Games. Last week, as the finishing touches were applied, the dust and din of the past three years began to lift, revealing shiny new buildings, glistening overhead superhighways and a network of fine, wide roads that is already speeding up traffic considerably. Four superexpressways slash like sword scars through 62 miles of the once impenetrable capital, while 25 miles of new subway bore beneath the random, rickety scab of slums, pachinko parlors and noodle shops that is home to most of the city's population...
...seaside town both exude a garish, garter-snapping exuberance that has largely disappeared from affluent America. The boardwalk - and for most visitors the boardwalk is Atlantic City - is an unbelievable anachronism, a eupeptic blend of pre-war Coney Island and a Victorian mu sic hall, where vulgarity, dodgem-car din, sentimentality and pushy camara derie reign uninhibited and unabashed...
...teacher, and now the teacher says: 'It is time to return to the class.' " No sooner had Muñoz finished than the chants erupted again-louder and fiercer. He grabbed the microphone. "You cannot make me violate my own conscience!" he roared above the din-and that was that...
...PEACE. "If I were asked to name the No. 1 problem facing the Republican Party at the national level in this election, I would say it is the totally wrong view our opponents will try to din into the minds of every American voter-namely, that the election of a Republican President in November will somehow lead to war. This is the supreme political lie, and we've got to label it for what it is. Let me assure you here and now that a Goldwater-Miller Administration will mean an immediate return to the proven policy of peace...
...jeers of the opposition. Pleadingly, the nation's President, Guillermo León Valencia, 55, raised his hands for quiet. "Liar!" howled the opposition. "Assassin!" As TV cameras flashed the scene to fascinated viewers, Valencia fought to be heard. "There are slaves," he shouted into the din, "who despite their freedom hold a nostalgia for chains...