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...Hamm and Professor Emil Egli, is about as close as most Americans will get to China this year. The photos, like China itself, seem timeless: men and women straining to haul boats upriver against a driving current, bent-backed peasants at labor in the fields, students planting trees, Mongolian horsemen racing across the steppe. And everywhere, plump wide-eyed children...
...Many horsemen come along merely for the ride or, as a London sportswriter put it, "the colossal bang of a hell-for-leather gallop over good country." Droves of fans pay no admission, trail the hounds on foot, and even in cars and on motorcycles. Of an estimated 200,000 fox-hunting rooters, many are organized into "supporters' associations," such as the 7,000-member club affiliated with the Pytchley Hunt. "They would never have been tolerated before the war," said one hunt master. At a recent meet in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire counties, some 2,500 cars clogged...
...action will appeal to youngsters most of all. The "Carosello of the Roses," for example, is a dazzling sword fight between six horsemen who try to slash short-stemmed roses from each other's helmets. The "Coliseum" num ber is even more savage. It opens with a gladiator whipping a half-clad "Roman slave," winds up with two four-horse chariots racing madly around the ring to see who can get to the victim first. The winner has the honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full...
...more simple errors: when Hamlet says, "But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue," the image shows his hairline, and drops to his face only as an after-thought; then, when horsemen are galloping through the Pampas, one of those frame-corners Kozintzev has been ignoring (the lower left one) picks up the highway the camera's trucking along...
...four days. Operation Crazy Horse was triggered when four Reds walked into an ambush, and documents on their bodies told of an impending Viet Cong attack on the Happy Valley Special Forces camp. From its nearby headquarters at An Khe, Air Cav choppers quickly dispatched a company of Flying Horsemen to the valley. The company was not long in finding the enemy: it drew withering mortar and machine-gun fire from a Red outpost hidden by shoulder-high, saw-edged elephant grass...