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Eerie Fanaticism. The earliest foot age, shot in 1900 by Professional Traveler Burton Holmes, contains a profusion of reminiscent vignettes: U.S. occupation troops play broomstick polo in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion; a throne-room sequence shows the last Manchu ruler, the depraved Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi. There are shots of Sun Yat-sen's founding of the Kuomintang, and of his 1925 funeral; and there is a portrait of 33-year-old Mao the next year, already glowing eerily with fanaticism. The impressive wedding ceremony of Sun's Wellesley-trained sister-in-law to his heir, Chiang...
...Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner is absurdly pleased to toddle off with Shirley on a tour of the Arab quarter. With the coast clear, Caine simply ducks back into the millionaire's flat and steals the priceless bust of a Ming empress...
...keep her mouth shut, the millionaire himself an alarmingly shrewd article who instantly suspects that Caine & Co. are up to no good. Even so, he invites the crooks to his apartment for the pure pleasure of watching their faces when they see that the bust of the empress is secluded in an impenetrable electronic seraglio...
Exploring Burial Caves. To accommodate visitors new luxury hotels are also proliferating in the Neighbor Islands. Empress of the group is Laurance Rockefeller's $15 million Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Among its attractions: rooms and promenades full of Polynesian wood carvings, inner courtyards luxuriant with bamboo, hibiscus and banana trees, plus exclusive rights to canter over the Parker ranch with jovial Hawaiian paniolas (cowboys) and a challenging 18-hole $2,000,000 golf course. Since its opening in July, 1965, Mauna Kea has been virtually S.R.O. It is raising its rates this month...
...week ago Tuesday night, while Republican Governor John A. Volpe was holding a reception in the Louis XIV Ballroom, across the hallway in the Empress Room was Lt. Gov, Elliot L. Richardson '41 and his people, and down the hallway was the Democratic State Treasurer Robert Q. Crane. Two friends of Crane's, on the way to his reception in the Princess Room, stopped by Volpe's celebration. They watched the TV cameras, listend to the band play "Louis, Louis," gulped down a glass of punch, and left. On the way out, one turned to the other and said, "There...