Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grown along with the war. Only two years ago, a modest 500 men a month were flown out to Hong Kong and Bangkok for brief vaca tions. This month, some 30,000 will wing off from the chill monsoon rains of the DMZ or the muddy Del ta for a five-day fling to a list of cities that now includes Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Manila, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and, most recently, Sydney.-It is probably something only the world's richest country could afford. To provide it, the Government pays Pan Am $23,500,000 a year...
...million. And he may be the best-behaved soldier in history. One R & R officer stationed in Thailand, where the record shows only one serious incident for every 12,000 G.I.s who visit Bangkok, says: "The trouble rate is so low, no one wants to believe it." In Hong Kong, police authorities say that they have more trouble with the resident British garrison than from visiting U.S. servicemen. Busting up bars seems to be something that went out with From Here to Eternity and the professional army. The G.I. these days is a civilian at heart-and savvy enough...
...already trimmed down offices around the world, from Hong Kong to the Geneva headquarters of Interpublic's international operations. Gone are such nonadvertising units as a publisher of business books and a company set up to develop new business for Interpublic. Fashion International, a design-consultant subsidiary with offices in Paris and New York, as well as McDonald Research Ltd. of Canada, went under. Chicago Group Inc., a special-projects unit, was absorbed by Mc-Cann-Erickson's Chicago office, while one of Interpublic's nine advertising agencies, Fletcher Richards, was merged with Marschalk & Co. Ancillary units...
...money, most were small, sterling-area nations whose fortunes depend on their sales to Britain, or to other devaluing countries. Sixteen precisely matched the 14.3% British devaluation: Barbados, Bermuda, Cyprus, Fiji, Gambia, Guyana, Israel, Ireland, Jamaica, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago. At first, Hong Kong lowered the exchange value of its dollar by a like amount, but the price of food (mostly imported from mainland China) and other goods promptly jumped between 7% and 20%, stirring so much discontent among the crown colony's largely Chinese population that some officials feared renewed political...
...anarchy, Peking is reported to have sent 100,000 People's Liberation Army troops into Canton, but the story that comes out is that they soon were at war with anti-Mao local troops and blasting away with mortars, artillery and tanks. Last week one traveler reaching Hong Kong described how some 200 Maoists were wiped out in a single stroke when anti-Maoists blew up a Cultural Revolution headquarters...