Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Richard J. Daley was just recovering from it. In Hollywood, Actress Natalie Wood was felled by it while shooting a $3,000,000 film. In Seattle, a pair of twin baby orangutans were placed in isolation when they came down with its symptoms. With jet-age speed A2-Hong Kong-68, more commonly known as "Hong Kong flu," spanned the nation last week, respecting neither station nor species...
...strain, a biological brother to a similar virus dubbed "Asian flu" when it affected 20 million in the U.S. in 1957, turned up last July in Central China. Travelers quickly carried it to Hong Kong, where it was labeled "Mao flu" as 500,000 Crown Colony residents were infected. The worldwide epidemic had begun (TIME, Sept. 27). The flu spread to Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, where King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit were among those affected. Authorities in the Soviet Union started vaccinating between 50% and 70% of Russia's urban population...
Stinking Thinking. Some analysts, principally British China-watchers in Hong Kong, see even deeper significance in the campaign. They are convinced that the extreme leftists who promoted the lunacies of the Cultural Revolution have been replaced at China's controls by the more conservative army. They believe that the army, which was one of the principal targets of the radical Red Guards, is wreaking its vengeance by shipping the young hooligans off to semi permanent exile, and in the name of their revered Mao, no less. In some provinces, most of the guardsmen find them selves shipped directly...
...been living in a void for 17 months, though he has been charged with no crime. He was confined to his Peking quarters in July 1967, in retaliation for the jailing of eight left-wing journalists for violating emergency regulations during last year's riots in Hong Kong. The Chinese, who once hinted that Grey would be released when the eight journalists were freed (they have been), now insist that 13 others seized since Grey's confinement must also be turned loose. Hong Kong authorities refuse to play the blackmail game...
...Hong Kong flu has come to Harvard. In the elevators you see people sniffle, and in the Yard puddles of nausea mark the paths from the Union. One sufferer told the University Health Services, "I think I have the flu"--and a nurse broke in, "You and fifty million others...