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...towering Peak-shipyards, smoking factories, villas drowned in gardens, balconied tenements, squatters' huts clinging to bare rock, bright new skyscrapers still wrapped in bamboo scaffolding. Coming in low over rooftops fluttering with blue and white laundry, the jet roars down upon the 8,000-foot runway of Kai Tak Airport. Thus, last week, another planeload of tourists landed amid the sights, sounds, smells and bracing excitement of Hong Kong...
...mainland increased the power and population of Hong Kong. By the turn of the century, 230,000 Chinese were residents; in the 1930s, the chaos caused by Japan's invasion of China brought in a million refugees. On Dec. 8, 1941, the Japanese dive-bombed Kai Tak Airport. Hong Kong's garrison surrendered to the Japanese on Christmas Day, 1941-exactly 100 years after the British had founded the colony...
...twice, I think he gets so sore at himself and the fans who are on him he almost says, 'All right, I'll show you. I'll strike out a third time.' And the worse things go, the more the fans get on Mickey, tak ing out their venom at the Yankees who had won so many years that people are fed up with them...
With jetliners now disgorging more tourists at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport, the bed shortage may get worse. Only two new hotels will be completed this year, a third in 1962, for the jet-borne trippers. Travel agents' advice to Americans planning to see and shop in Hong Kong: book six months ahead...
...Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport the day before Christmas, a bundled-up Negro stepped off a night plane from Tokyo, drove to Kowloon railroad station and boarded a train for the 22-mile trip to Lo Wu on the China border. There, in defiance of the State Department's refusal to give U.S. newsmen passports to Red China (TIME, Sept. 3), William Worthy Jr., 36, special correspondent for Baltimore's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, crossed the border, became the first American reporter to enter China in seven years...