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...numbers, Hong Kong's 2,400,000 Chinese, speaking every dialect of the mainland, dominate the colony, but a few thousand English-speaking whites run it. The mellow beat of wooden clogs on pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
...effort to make settings splendid and costumes rich, and all authentic to the period in the least detail. By all that literary art and cinematic craft could do, the way was prepared for the heroine of history, and suddenly, in a sputter of high heels and a clatter of false eyelashes, she arrives on the scene-the most cultivated woman of the French Renaissance: Lana Turner...
When audience research showed the TV networks that nearly as many fathers as kids watched western movies, they realized that they were missing a bet. So, with a clatter of hoofs and a hi-yo, the networks this season launched a flood of "grownup" westerns and began drawing a bead on the competition. Last week CBS's Gunsmoke shot up past an NBC Spectacular (Max Liebman's Dearest Enemy) by a score of 20.8 to 17.3 in the Trendex ratings. At ABC, the Cheyenne segment of Warner Bros. Presents has piled up so many more viewers than...
...dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for-perhaps-the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race. No one announced that anyone was running, but there was a persistent clatter of hurrying feet in a sort of circle...
...Moscow, and behind them half a million square miles of Russia lay charred. Only ten years before, a sullen shuffle of a defeated, captured Nazi army marched on dismal parade through Moscow's streets. And now, with a rattle of drums, a blare of horns and the clatter of a goose-stepping honor guard, the leader of the new Germany was received in Moscow...