Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HONG KONG--The Peking, People's Daily reported that Red China's barbers recite Mao Tse-tung's thoughts and slogans without stop from the first to the last snip of their shears...
...everyone suffered cutbacks. TWA came out unscathed. It will be granted new runs to Hong Kong and Guam, linking with existing trans-Asian routes, and will thus become the U.S.'s second round-the-world carrier (after Pan Am). Flying Tiger's all-cargo service to Japan remained intact. The two established U.S. airlines in the Pacific, Pan Am and Northwest, came in for minor rejiggering. Pan Am lost a great-circle route to Tokyo from Seattle and Portland but kept a new run to Japan from New York. Nixon denied Northwest a great-circle route to Tokyo...
Whether Stans or Gilbert will have the stronger voice in trade negotiation's remains to be seen. Next month both men will fly to Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong to press the case for voluntary textile quotas. U.S. manufacturers consider those four the principal source of concern. Last year more than 62% of all synthetic-textile imports came from the Far East. Considering the precarious state of the overall U.S. trade surplus, which all but vanished in 1968, the nation faces enough problems to occupy both...
...been expecting your call. I'm pleased that it worked out well, but I'm not surprised. Remember me to Aries." At night he keeps a file of his principal clients' charts by his bed for ready consultation at 2:30 a.m. when an actor calls up from Hong Kong?as one did recently?to ask him when the ankle he twisted on the set was going to get better. Righter plainly loves this kind of doctor-patient relationship; he has never married, and much of his affective life is lived through his clients. "If I don't get called...
...immediate economic peril comes from Hong Kong's main foreign friends. Fully 95% of the colony's manufactured items are exported, and half of them are in textiles. Threats of U.S. restrictions on imports have stimulated many manufacturers to diversify into plastics, toys and wigs. Says P. Y. Tang, a textile millionaire: "The disturbances of 1967 did not worry me at all. They didn't hurt us. But quotas on our goods abroad do worry...