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...Ming Cho Lee's grand ballroom and tapestry are as handsome as ever, and John Morri's substantial incidental music and songs stand up beautifully, supported by Graciela Daniele's choregraphy. The four supplementary singers are all back and in good voice...
...Ming vases? Antiques? Gold? Cattle? All can tumble out of favor and decline in price. So where is the perplexed American investor to park his extra cash and protect its value? Certainly not in a savings account. Had Phineas T. Barnum lived today, his famous dictum might well have been: There's a saver born every minute. In the inflationary 1970s, savers are suckers who stand to lose. If inflation should continue at February's 15.4% rate, every dollar put into a bank at 5¼% interest will become 91.4? in real money a year from...
...Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's wife, changed from one dazzling ensemble to another during her U.S. visit last week. Many Chinese panjandrums wear silken tunics that barely bow to Mao. Sumptuousness, after all, is not exactly new to the people who created such marvels as the Ming Tombs and the Forbidden City. After decades of isolation and unisex, it is not too surprising that the Chinese should again aspire to elegance, or seek it from Paris, where some of their leaders were educated. As for Cardin: "When I was 20, a fortune teller told me that...
...system in which doctors perform operations within three minutes (a safe abortion usually takes about 15), do not administer anesthetics or do not wait for them to take effect, and race each other to see who can perform the most operations in a day. According to the investigators, Dr. Ming K. Hah of the Chicago Loop Mediclinic and Michigan Avenue Medical Center may provide the fastest and most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them up at the end of the day. In their haste...
...enabled more and more foreigners to see the wonders of the Middle Kingdom. This year, 100,000 foreign tourists and businessmen-including 15,000 Americans?will visit China, and next year the total could double. What most visitors bring back, besides snapshots of the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, are horror stories about the accommodations. Hotel rooms are hard to get, ah" conditioning is rare, and such Western amenities as bars, saunas and swimming pools are all but unknown...