ASIA: A Place in the Sun

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From sidewalk loudspeakers outside the big Western-style hotels came the scratchy strains of an old Tommy Dorsey recording of Marie. The swarm of delegates arriving in town came in British-and U.S.-made planes, were taken to their hotels in new, pastel-colored Plymouths, escorted by just as new Harley-Davidsons. The Indonesian soldiers who stood on guard at almost every corner, corridor and doorway wore U.S. steel helmets. Only in such trappings, however, was the Western world represented in the great assemblage that gathered this week in the Indonesian resort...

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