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...Frenchman has his café, the Briton his pub, but for Japan's man in the street the place to meet has been, for the past three centuries, a big bathtub. Throughout Tokyo today, where in working class neighborhoods up to 80% of the population still lacks private facilities, more than 1,600,000 men and women immerse themselves companionably every evening in the steaming vats of the city's 2,608 sento or public bathhouses. There Suzuki-san discusses the besuboru pennant race, and his wife, behind a flimsy partition (a late 19th century concession to Occidental...
Compared to elephant hunting in the jungles of Mysore or bullfighting in Toledo, it should have been child's play. Confidently the vacationing Shah of Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and dropped to the floor. Setting aside her 'arf pint, Queen Farah Diba, 26, demurely followed her husband to the line. There was a gleam in the lady's eye. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! She neatly ringed the bull's-eye. Farah pooh-poohed it all, but a bricklayer...
...inflation by demanding higher wages, opposing automation, and restricting entry by younger workers. Roughly two-thirds of all dockworkers are now over 40. Their whole system of payment is geared to heavy wages for overtime and much lower pay for normal hours. By "welting"--taking shifts at the local pub on company time--workers are able to prolong work until the weekend when they will receive higher rates. Some companies are so "dispirited" by these costly delays, says Sir William McFalzean, chairman of the British National Exports Council, "that they give up the struggle in export markets...
Unmoved by such criticism, Diefenbaker declared: "To those of you who suggest I step down, I'm going to call to your minds a statement once made by Winston Churchill, 'I ain't going till the pub closes...
...slightly Canadianized version of Sir Winston's "I leave when the pub closes...