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...White Jade in Hong Kong. To most Seattleites, the man behind their "Bird in Art" show is perhaps the rarest bird of all: Millionaire Museum Director Richard E. Fuller, 59, Manhattan-born, Yale-educated cousin of Novelist J. P. Marquand. With his mother, the late Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Art Patron Fuller put up $300,000 in 1933 to build Seattle's hilltop museum. Fuller has served as president and full-time director ever since. In return, Seattle awarded him its first "Man of the Year" civic-service award...
...restaurants, take a side trip across the causeway to the Malayan mainland for a view of the Sultan of Johore's famed palace. Singapore's best hotel is the renowned Raffles, where rates average $20 per day for a double room v. $15 elsewhere. Best shopping bets: jade, Chinese scrolls and painted silk. Average tourist expense in Southeast Asia: $30 to $50 per day per person...
Street stalls and numberless shops vend glowing jade, laces, lovingly carved woods and ivories from the China mainland (only a mile away), roasted whole pigs, tin bathtubs, hollowed-tree coffins, ancient cures compounded of dried sea horses, centipedes, lizards and snakes. Yet more than 1,500 workshops and factories, many of them new and equipped with modern Western machinery, pour forth a cascade of flashlights, rubber shoes, bicycles and cheap cottons for the marketplaces of Southeast Asia. The colony consists of 391 sq. mi.; most of it-a 356-sq.-mi. mainland area called the New Territories-is leased from...
...subject of Outer Mongolia, was a chance to make a stand, even in principled defiance of the U.S.. and that defiance was a source of satisfaction. In Hong Kong an old Chinese proverb was quoted: "Better to be a broken piece of jade than a whole tile...
...many of Tokyo's businessmen, who have been clamoring for free trade with China, had also dampened. The new "people's democracy" across the East China Sea had sent some 3,500 products to the fair, including bicycles, pheasant feathers, automatic coal conveyors, tiger skins, machine tools, jade trinkets, generators, fountain pens and even a batch of Shanghai-style dresses with enticing slit skirts, a fashion the Reds banned as "decadent" in their regime's first days...