Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Sophia Loren is The Countess from Hong Kong (1967) who takes advantage of rich American Ambassador Marlon Brando by stowing away in his stateroom. Charles Chaplin wrote and directed the film...
...China: Ho was forced to flee to Moscow in 1927, after the Chinese Nationalists broke with their Soviet advisers and began massacring Communists. A year later, disguised as a shaven-headed Buddhist monk, Ho turned up in the Thai Northeast to organize support among Vietnamese, then traveled to Hong Kong on Moscow's orders to end a quarrel among other Vietnamese Communists. Ho succeeded: the party that he founded there in 1930 has survived?with two changes of name?down to the present. He was jailed briefly by the British, then fled to Shanghai and on to Moscow. Four years...
...Hong Kong last week, some 250 government officials, diplomats and businessmen gathered at the Crown Colony's Hilton Hotel to help us celebrate an event that is becoming more and more frequent for TIME: the opening of a new printing plant. For the past 15 years, the magazine's Asian editions have been printed in Tokyo, and distributed by air to readers in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia. In some cases, that meant a time-consuming haul of more than 4,000 miles. With the new plant in full operation (at least 100,000 copies...
...which requires no fewer than 15 printing and distribution centers round the world. In the U.S., we have plants in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Atlanta, Dallas, Old Saybrook, Conn., and Albany, N.Y. Abroad, the load is carried by Paris, Tokyo, Melbourne, Montreal, Auckland, Panama City, London and now Hong Kong. Early next year, there will be a 16th plant, in Vancouver, B.C., and sometime during the year a circulation to top almost 5,600,000, a gain of 12% over 1969. For the first six months of this year, our circulation has already grown by more than 300,000 worldwide...
...Hong Kong offers gold-painted, hand-carved wood panels from temples ($10), lacquered tray sets ($40), fine porcelain vases ($30 and up) and embroidered tablecloths with matching napkins ($12 to $60). For anyone tired of the same old cocktails every night, one interesting bargain is rice wine from the mainland at 800 a pint...