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...swoops past the great city rising from the water's edge toward the towering Peak-shipyards, smoking factories, villas drowned in gardens, balconied tenements, squatters' huts clinging to bare rock, bright new skyscrapers still wrapped in bamboo scaffolding. Coming in low over rooftops fluttering with blue and white laundry, the jet roars down upon the 8,000-foot runway of Kai Tak Airport. Thus, last week, another planeload of tourists landed amid the sights, sounds, smells and bracing excitement of Hong Kong...
Hong Kong (ABC) is a comic strip come to life about a U.S. foreign correspondent. The opening episode involved more or less comic sailors, a Chinese fortune cooky (France Nuyen), and a plot that had everybody ducking back and forth across the Red frontier as if the Bamboo Curtain were equipped with a revolving door. Against one of the world's grimmest backdrops, the whole thing had an annoying air of schoolboys playing pranks. The show's one hope is that it may generate humor by parodying itself, and the first installment made a good start...
...tractor train will head for the South Pole from Byrd Station in the Ellsworth Highland, exploring unknown mountains and marking the 800-mile route with bamboo poles thrust into the ice each 1/5 mile...
...star of peace hoisted a trail of missile smoke from salt water to space as a signal of a bright new addition to seapower, a new strategic use of the world's oceans which will be felt around the world and across and behind the iron and bamboo curtains...
...China therefore would mean losing ten million people who do not want Communist rule and would also "write off any faith in our support of Far Eastern countries" trying to maintain the ideals of the free world. "American policy," he felt, "has often helped Peking by hiding the bamboo curtain on the Chinese side with a nylon curtain on the American side...