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Show Page 44—THE HERALD. Prov Letter From Peking Bright Colors Bloom in China As Foreign Visitors Pay More Editor's Note: Robert Crabbe. manager of UPI's Peking bureau, is one Editor's Note’ Robert Crabbe, manager of UPI's Peking bureau, is one of the first American correspondents allowed to take up permanentresidencein the Chinese capital. Fol lowing are his impressionsoflife in Peking PEKING (UPI) — In two weeks in this city of 8 on people, I have seen only two Chinese womer: wearing dresses Both of them were theatrical performers i shows Chinese womenwear trousers and jackets. most ly blue and olive drab. But it's clear they haven't lost interest in clothes Wang Fu Jing street is Peking s No 1 shopping center. A huge billboard beside the Peking Municipal DepartmentStore announcesthat spring and summer fashions for women noware onsale Theboard has a drawing of a girl ina skirt andtw others in stylish slacks Thestore's ready-to-wear department is on the secondfloor It is a mob scene. Womenarelined up three and four deepat the counters shouting and wavingtoget the attention of the limited numberof clerks By Western standards variety is limited. There are simple monochrome skirts. bright colored DON’T DROP THATPIPE! It’s madeofglass. Actually, the glass-fiber compositepipeis madeso it will not shatter into millions of pieces. And the corrosion resistance of such pipe is causing themto be used increasingly in wastewater-treatment and chemical-processing plants, says Owens-C blouses. sweaters and a few designs of textiles for making clothing at home js of gin. whiskey d wine areoffered. along American and ypean cigarettes But no Chinese K you The Peking Hotel is enthusiastically going into the saloon business. The authorities have found that the thirst of foreign friends can be a valuable ce of the foreign currency China needs to buy hinery for its modernization program years ago, the hotel had only a stand-up bai ‘0 tables in a single room next door to its poo! Now there are 28 tables The bar has spilled yut into the lobby It also has taken over the pool hall, which has been abolished The hotel s managers didn't have to go to Harvard business schoo! to learn about profit maximization Foreignfriends’ are welcometo buy drinks fron their own countries providing they pay in their own currency. A shot of good scotch with water costs $1. There are no mixed drinks The students China is sending to study abroad don't include bartenders The cheapest way to get tipsy is on Chinese vodka which retails for 20 fen one-fifth of a Chinese yuan — per glass. That is about 13 US Chinese beer was something of a Therealso is a cosmetics concession on the first floor Even lipstick is available, though few Peking equivalent women appear to useit an a quart. Its li popularity with foreign triends was not lost on the Chinese The new price With the coming of spring a few wild flowers bloom in the drab desert of the Peking clothing scene Many younggirls discard their blue or olive drab coats for bright colored jackets in reds, yellows and gree Colorful head scarves appear, and when spring dust storms visit the Chinese capital. the scarves are worn over the face like Moslem women’s veils Bright red, blue and green socks peep out below the cuffs of younger women's trousers. The big exception to uniformity of dress is children’s clothing —bright, warm and evenstylish Peking’s preschool tots are well dressed even by the standards of the United States or Japan is 54 cents Many developing countries with cheapcurrencies try to lure foreign tourists by making it a bargain for them to come Not the Chinese It is a well-estabished rule — dating back to colonial times before World War I! — that foreigners ought to pay more because they supposedlycan affordit Hence foreign tourists flying on domestic air routes in China pay fares twoor three timeshigher than those charged Chinese Astonishingly, this rule even applies to un. derground publications put out by Chinese dissi- North Koreans boast that in their country children get the best of everything.” The same rule seems to apply in northern China dents. A poster on Peking’s DemocracyWall advertises a magazineput out by critics of the government for *CocaCola Belongs”’ in Peking — according to an ad slogan for the recently arrived American soft 10 fen — one-tenth of a Chinese yuan or 6.3 US. cents. The poster adds that ‘foreign friends’ are re drink — butit doesn't belongto the Chinese. It must questedto pay 10 times as much —one full yuan or be paid for in foreign currency not Chinese So most of the customers are‘‘foreign friends’ which 63 US. cents. is what the Chinese callvisitors. The combination bar-coffee shopin thefirstfloor in Peking or foreign newsmen trying to gather stories The onlypotential customers are foreign students CUMCem)ee PLASTIC BOTTLES APPEAR to form a giant question mark as they trundle quickly past an inspector on this productionline. But their contents are no mystery; the bottles contain the chocolate-flavored syrup that many youngsters like to have added to their milk. 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