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...first suspected-even hoped, as the least of several evils-that he had been captured by local bandits, who sometimes seize Chinese merchants for ransom. But offers of substantial rewards, printed in local newspapers, failed to produce any response. Thompson was accustomed to the jungle, but the forest around Cameron Highlands is so thick and its trails so numerous and meandering that local authorities estimated that it would take a full regiment of men working for about a month to comb the area. The only clue came from a cook in a Lutheran-mission bungalow, who said that...
...Cameron Highlands of Malaysia, 140 miles north of Kuala Lumpur at an elevation of 5,000 ft., is one of Southeast Asia's most fetching health resorts. Its climate is mild by day and cool by night, and its lush vegetation includes thick jungles, clouds of brilliant flowers and mile after mile of tea plantations. There last week on vacation went one of Southeast Asia's best-known businessmen, American James Thompson, 61. Tired from a round of business, which included the opening in Bangkok three weeks ago of a new, two-story headquarters for his $1.5 million...
...group will give an average of five concerts a week on the tour. One of these will be in the small northern Philippine town of Baguio, founded by Cameron Forbes, a former Governor General of the Philippines. Forbes was an uncle of Elliot Forbes '40, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music...
...triumph like a captured tiger. About a third of the footage is indignantly anti-American: shots of schoolchildren digging trenches ("an outrage and an imposition"), views of a TB clinic allegedly destroyed by U.S. bombs that overshot a bridge ("You mustn't be ill near a bridge"). Cameron claims in his commentary that U.S. bombings have not significantly weakened the North's economy, and have actually strengthened the people's will to win; his footage supplies little evidence to support either contention...
...film begins, Reporter Cameron observes: "They let me in, I'm not sure why." When the film ends, the moviegoer is pretty sure...