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...check any sudden spurt in defection, Peking sent army units to the borders above Hong Kong and Macao, but a lot of Chinese still managed to slip through. With them came unconfirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung was suffering from throat cancer and that the Red Guard-led purge was the last gasp of a dying dictator. To be sure, Mao has not spoken publicly during his last few outings, allowing Defense Minister Lin Piao (TIME, Sept. 9) to be his mouthpiece. Last week Lin was placed directly in command of the Red Guards-a position heretofore held...
Especially into the southern coastal waters near Canton. Last month 748 escapees from the mainland landed in Macao-the highest total in three years. Over half made it by swimming the rough tidal waters of the Pearl River estuary, buoyed up by their newly learned skill and by plastic life preservers supplied to participants in Peking's swimming campaign...
...France for the past four years, was invented by a firm that sounds as if it had been founded by Jules Verne; Compagnie d'Applications Mecaniques à 1'Electronique au Cinéma et à 1'Atomistique (CAMECA). Since then it has spread from Marseilles to Macao; Nikita Khrushchev even has one, loaded with Marxian uplift featurettes. Actually, Scopitone's "musies" are descended from U.S. Soundies, which during World War II filled bus terminals and B-girl grottoes with grainy, black-and-white productions of The Flat Foot Floogee with the Floy Floy...
...Sunday Times asked Author Fleming to take a round-the-world tour to write some local-color travel pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom. Honolulu he found "just another reservation for the pensioners," which he left "without many regrets." Berlin's night life "is certainly not what it used to be." In New York...
...evening's reading. Our overseas correspondents file 975,000 words a month. Most of the words come from our 43 regular staff correspondents abroad, the rest from our valued, though little-sung, 120 part-time correspondents (or "stringers") in such out-of-the-way places as Zanzibar, Sarawak, Macao and Katmandu...