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Over in Cambodia. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, who covered the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's army for LIFE in 1949, reported that table talk among journalists in Phnom-Penh has turned abruptly and urgently to plans for escape...
...achieving what he helped bring about as U.S. chargé in Laos 18 months ago: a coalition between the opposing parties that would end the fighting. While he claims not to be emotionally involved in the situation, he clearly is. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, he pleaded his increasingly forlorn case for continued U.S. military assistance. Excerpts...
...mere 18 miles as the wu-ya (crow) flies, our correspondents in the crown colony must piece together news from travelers, diplomats, refugees, provincial Chinese newspapers and radio broadcasts. Their task is made easier because all three have had first-hand experience on the mainland. Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, who chatted with Chou En-lai in Peking in 1973, began on-the-scene reporting of the Chinese civil war for LIFE in 1947. Rowan covered the conflict from the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek's armies in Manchuria to the fall of Canton in 1949. Correspondent Bing W. Wong...
Monty Python followed the outlines of the career of Rowan & Martin--a TV-based act that started out strong and, under the pressure of success and the need to produce a show week after week, grew less funny. But so far Americans haven't had to deal with Monty Python in eclipse, when mutilated cat jokes get as predictable as buckets of water. What's available now--four superb records, one incredibly funny movie, and a series of 14 fairly good one-hour TV shows that will be aired on Channel 2 this spring--is vintage Monty Python, which...
...Carl Rowan, LL.D., journalist and former U.S. Ambassador to Finland. George Wallace, LL.D., Governor of Alabama...