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...than France, although prices are 7% above last season's. This year Italy expects 750,000 American visitors, 10% more than last year's record. To house them, 1,278 new hotels or pensions have opened in the past year, and airports and railroad stations throughout the peninsula will list every local hotel on an electric board (red lights for a full house, green lights for vacancies). For motorists, the Italian Auto Club has opened 16 autostelli motels ($6 a night...
...usual tropical discomforts is added the barbed wire which confines the town within its perpetual state of siege; to the usual jungle noises is added the rumble of British 25-pounders as dispirited troops try to nose out Communist terrorists in the hills of the "vast sighing terrible peninsula...
...fuel his false fires. He is a middle-class spiv of genius, a portrait of all those who can make love or a piece of change among the ruins. In the wake of World War II armies, he had moved unerringly into the black market up the Italian peninsula into Vienna, but eventually he seemed condemned to living off his wife in London. The need for propaganda ("You just pick it up as you go along, boy") takes him to a last chance in Malaya, where he is supposed to dress up the unprecedented local elections...
...British annexed the adjoining deep-water port of Aden, which lies in the extreme southeast corner of the Arabian peninsula, and later staked out a 112,000-sq.-mi protectorate in the area around it. After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Aden became (and will be again when the Suez Canal reopens) an important fueling port and naval station on the trade route to India, Southeast Asia, Australia and East Africa. The British are determined to keep...
...clean, quiet void - where at times the visibility stretched for more than 200 miles - the planes streaked counterclockwise around the earth - eastward across the U.S., over Newfoundland, past North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Ceylon (giving the Soviet Union a wide berth), made a mock bomb-run off the Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo...