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Feeling rose between the two countries, aggravated by the fact that Thailand is always accusing Cambodia of providing jungle bases for Communist guerrillas. Last fall the two nations severed diplomatic relations after Thailand's Soldier Premier Sarit Thanarit likened Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk to a pig. In a speech, Sihanouk retorted that though he might look like a pig, Sarit was a fatter pig. If soup were made of the two leaders, sneered Sihanouk, the soup made from Sarit would taste better...
Characteristically excellent were a couple of documentaries produced and directed by an Englishman named Denis Mitchell. In one, he took a deep, lingering look at a small town in Kentucky, neither interpreting nor judging, using no narration at all, but merely assembling a collection of vignettes-a pig being killed by rifle, a woman cooking on a wood stove, an old Negro in a Frank Lloyd Wright hat-that were enough to make any viewer feel that he had lived in that town for 35 years. The only voices belonged to the townspeople-talking about the practice of country...
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...abundance of food. Every crowded Hong Kong street is redolent of salt dried fish and the sharp smell of pickles. Vendors offer oranges, bananas and cakes; the stalls of Market Row gleam with eggplant, squash and tomatoes. Workers throng the pork shops to buy succulent halves of crisp, glazed pig. Store fronts are filled with families clustered around rice bowls and side dishes of meat and fish...
Three Canadian newspapers-the Toronto, Ont., Globe and Mail, the Kingston, Ont., Whig-Standard and the Regina, Sask., Leader-Post-dropped the pig-goat sequence. (As a substitute the Globe and Mail reprised a Pogo swampland series from the 1940s.) In the U.S., the Toledo Blade temporarily killed Kelly. And in Tokyo, the English language Asahi Evening News, having run the sequence for 11 days, agreed to drop the rest of it after a protest from the Soviet embassy...