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Civil Aeronautics Board was in its second month of studying requests by 18 U.S. airlines to fly the Far East route, currently dominated by Pan Am and Northwest Orient Airlines. At stake for Chow and the 18: an estimated billion dollars of total annual air fares...
...wails that came out of the Orient last month when Folk Singer Joan Baez, 26, was on a tour of Japan. And the noise was not just protest songs. Joan complained bitterly that the CIA had pressured her Japanese interpreter into censoring her public comments about Viet Nam and the Bomb. But when she returned to San Francisco and called a press conference, all Joan wanted to talk about was love and peace. Newsmen persisted: What about those dark tales of CIA meddling? "We don't have a shred of evidence," admitted Joan's manager. Then the alleged...
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...blunt his enthusiasm for further exporation. He studied archaeology at Uppsala University, and while a student, unearthed one of his nation's most precious artifacts-a gold-plated sword dating from Sweden's Iron Age. As the young Crown Prince, Gustaf in 1926 visited the Orient, where he met Swedish archaeologists busy uncovering China's prehistoric ages. Fascinated by the similarity between Viking and ancient Chinese bronze objects, Gustaf began collecting, helped stock Stockholm's Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities...
Blown Fuses. It is only three years since the Viet Nam circuit became the Orpheum of the Orient for adventurous performers. Most of the bookings are handled by Agent Joe Tomasi, now 28, who brought his first touring variety show into Saigon in the spring of 1964, and a year later formed the World Wide Talent agency with retired U.S. Chief Petty Officer George Albrecht. "The Vietnamese acts were terrible," Tomasi recalls, and he began flying out regularly to Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo to fetch in outside talent. Today, W.W.T. handles about half of the paid professional entertainment appearing...