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...section features four pages of color reproductions of Chinese masterpieces now touring the U.S.-and being shown this week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. TIME readers first saw samples of this unique treasure in color four years ago, when TIME photographed the collection in Formosa. For the four pages of old scrolls shown this week, Art Director Michael J. Phillips sought a gloss-free paper that would bring out the delicate detail, the color and the appearance of the silk originals. In the end, he had the paper made to his specifications at the Mead Paper...
...gets Vibrio comma from the feces of one victim to the digestive tract of the next-chiefly contaminated water and food. To keep the disease out of other parts of Asia, shipment of fresh fruits and vegetables into or out of Hong Kong was banned. In the Philippines and Formosa, less than two-hour flights away, raw food from Hong Kong was seized and burned. The Philippines, which have a heavy, regular and effective program of cholera vaccination, began giving booster shots but reported no cases. Formosa hurriedly got out its needles at ten health stations, and a U.S. Navy...
Sihanouk is eager to see an end to the tension between the U.S. and Red China, but his suggested solution is not one likely to appeal to Washington: "I think it necessary and even urgent that Washington and Peking should reconcile-the price is Formosa. Red China will never accept a compromise over Formosa, and I wouldn't be stupid enough to propose one. Besides, the Laotian affair has taught me that the role of mediator is most ungrateful: one receives blows from all sides and is suspected by everyone...
...Department leaked out hints of such possible diplomatic moves as a new "two China" policy and recognition of Outer Mongolia; U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson seemed to surrender be fore the battle when months ago he spoke of Red China's admission to the U.N. as being inevitable. Recently, Formosa's dismay over U.S. diplomacy rose to such a degree that Ambassador Everett Drumright was summoned home for consultation. At his advice, the White House arranged for last week's state visit by Chen, 63, the official heir apparent to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
From Japan, the Glee Club moved on to Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Thailand. In Hong Kong, the group surprised their audience by singing the famous Chinese folk song "Galloping Up The Hilltop" in Mandarin. The program consisted mainly of church music...