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What should the tourist buy? Certainly not Chinese clothes, leather goods or toys, which in general are costlier or less stylish than those from other countries. Chinese ivory is not so fine as Thailand's. High-quality Chinese jade is exorbitant: an inchlong pendant, for example, sells for about...
...Singapore, probably the best shopping center for Peking products, worthwhile buys range from lower-quality jade rings to ground deer horns, which are reputed to be an aphrodisiac. For his $100, a U.S. traveler can bring home a six-color jade bracelet at $30, a 17-piece embroidered linen place-mat setting at $25, a 2-ft. by 4-ft. Tientsin carpet at $16, a man's pure silk dressing gown at $10.50, a porcelain coffee set at $6, two pairs of children's brocade pajamas at $4, a cloisonne-ware ashtray at $2.50 and a hand-painted...
Wednesday, March 26 ADVENTURES AT THE JADE SEA (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* William Holden narrates as an expedition of fellow conservationists and photographers visit the shores of Lake Rudolf in Kenya "to witness a way of life earmarked for extinction as the inev itable outcome of conflict between civ ilized and primitive...
...with a cushy job as a hotel night clerk, but Antoine gets canned when a private detective (Harry Max) makes him the dupe in a divorce case. Joining the detective's agency, Antoine spends his days clumsily shadowing suspects and his nights wooing his girl Christine (Claude Jade...
This time, the Americans traveled by plane rather than in the rattling, thumping holds of transports crowded with Marines, many of whom were about to die under murderous machine-gun fire even before they could splash ashore. From the air, Tarawa looked like a peaceful string of jade beads carelessly tossed on a dressing table. Each of the islands surrounding the lagoon is a bit of equatorial sand and coral nourishing coconut palms, breadfruit and pandanus trees. But on the bird-shaped island of Betio at the end of the string, the scars of war may not be erased...