Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a step is being taken." Hanoi's delegates refused to accept that gambit, but Radio Hanoi implicitly met a longstanding U.S. demand that North Viet Nam acknowledge the presence of its troops south of the Demilitarized Zone. Said a broadcast People's Army statement monitored in Hong Kong: "The peoples and armies of our whole country will continue fighting shoulder to shoulder to firmly inflict ever heavier blows and ultimate defeat upon the U.S. aggressors...
Died. Patricia Jessel, 47, mistress of theatrical malice, whose dark hair and darker voice were just the ticket for mystery lovers on both sides of the Atlantic; of a heart attack; in London. Although a versatile Shakespearean actress, the Hong Kong-born performer found her real metier as a modern villainess, won fame (and a Tony Award) for her portrayal of the calculating wife in the 1954 Broadway run of Witness for the Prosecution...
...South Korea, wages-paid in dollars -sent home by countrymen fighting and working in South Viet Nam account for $62 million a year in sorely needed foreign-exchange earnings. And such pleasure haunts as Hong Kong and Bangkok enjoy a windfall-$100 million a year, all told-from rest-and-recreation visits by Viet Nam-based U.S. servicemen...
...cried out "Bao Chi! Bao Chi!" (reporter), the Viet Cong opened up on them with a burst of fire from their automatic weapons. They cut down all but one, an Australian freelance photographer who escaped by playing dead. Cantwell, a native of Sidney, Australia, had worked for Australian and Hong Kong newspapers and the Associated Press before joining TIME as a stringer-correspondent, spoke three Chinese dialects and was an avid student of Asian languages and culture. During the past year, he had covered a wide variety of stories about the Vietnamese war for TIME. He was about to rejoin...
Some economists dispute the overall importance of cheaper labor in other countries. Still, workers earning as little as 150 an hour have helped South Korea gain a big foothold in transistor manufacture-a business that is also growing in such low-pay spots as Hong Kong and Mexico. Foreign countries have grabbed half of the domestic movie-camera market, and all but two U.S. manufacturers (Kodak and Bell & Howell) have dropped out of the picture. Cummins now sells most of the diesel-engine output of its British plant in the U.S., while all of RCA's tape recorders...