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...answer is crucial not only to Formosa. It is also crucial to the whole area of Southeast Asia. Scattered from clattering, neon-bright Hong Kong to Saigon's gaudy Chinese city of Cholon, from stilt houses and river boats along Bangkok's green canals to high-walled compounds in Djakarta and Siantar in Sumatra, from bamboo slums to sleek modern apartments in Singapore, live 12 million Chinese. For them, Chiang and Formosa are the only counter to the pull of Communist China on their loyalty...
...Angelo himself did not even suspect his powers until he was well into manhood. A poor boy who never got beyond the third grade, he was an acrobat and stilt-walker in a circus until one day in 1934, when he fell off his stilts and broke his skull. When he came to, as he tells it now, he amazed both himself and his nurse by his clairvoyant ability to recite her past. He set himself up in a back street as the Mago di Napoli and practiced clairvoyance...
...when the nearby Seine bridge was known as "Pont Mamie." But there was also Panama in 1922. Mamie had just lost her three-year-old son, "Little Icky," and was expecting her second. She found herself living amid the damp, stifling tropical heat in an ancient and stilt-supported house. There were bats in the rafters, and tarantulas crept out of cracks in the floor. She learned to know a lot of worlds: Washington, the Army schools, the rainy Northwest. In 1936, when Ike served as assistant to General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines, Mamie found herself living amid rococo...
Adrian's Africa is as well-groomed and chic as an Adrian dress collection. Under pastel skies, orderly Daliesque vistas stretch away toward infinity. Stilt-limbed natives cavort decoratively with zebras and elephants, or sit among delicate foliage, holding snakes that have skins like fashionable dress prints...
...Henry Morgan Show (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBCTV) began three months ago as a take-off on TV amateur hours. Last week, abandoning such zany performers as talking dogs, stilt-walkers and bicep-dancers, Morgan introduced a new series of uneven but fresh TV sketches. The best of them showed Morgan suffering through a friend's home movies and Morgan as a TV newscaster being confused by four wall clocks (for Paris, London, Algiers and McKeesport). The commercials, animated cartoons for Campbell's Soup, are self-consciously cute...