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...opium dens of Nanshih, the old town, to the cosmopolitan attractions of the waterfront whores of Yangtzepoo Road. This was the town where sailors got shanghaied. Today, Shanghai is officially the biggest city on earth (pop. 10,820,000), but it is all rather different. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan visited the metropolis and cabled this report...
China continues its quest for new contacts and alignments throughout the world. Last week, the Chinese welcomed the inaugural flight to Peking by Ethiopian Airlines. TIME's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan was aboard and duly found himself face to face with Premier Chou En-lai at the Great Hall of the People. His report...
Bette Midler. You have to go all the way back to Elton John. Then there was Cat Stevens, and Brinsley Schwartz, and David Bowie, and Grootna, and the Rowan Brothers. Bette Midler could be just another hype. "But this girl can really SING!" Yeah, I know that. And Danny Cater can hit the long ball. They say for the nth time, that Bette Midler is the star of the seventies. Landau said it, Rolling Stone's said it. Word's definitively out on Bette Midler. Typical success story. Extremely bosomy girl seen by big name as singing waitress in Village...
Correspondents in Asia who sought to cover the actual release and reception of the first group of freed prisoners found themselves grappling with secretive American and Vietnamese officials for hard information. At Clark Air Base in the Philippines, Correspondent Roy Rowan and 167 other newsmen found a cadre of military information officers standing between them and the facts. Rowan spent some of the long wait as a guest lecturer in politics and journalism at the local high school. Photographer Carl Mydans, on assignment for TIME, conducted a quick course in news photography. Eddie Adams, another TIME photographer on the scene...
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