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...this has a manly, adventurous tang and the animals are so spirited and graceful that they merit every bit of superbly photographed film footage they get. When the beasts are off camera, the film is a beastly drag. Elsa Martinelli wants to be roped and wedding-banded by Wayne, but big John shies away from any species that a zoo will not buy. The other three white hunters follow the spoor of a comely teen-ager (Michele Girardon). Director Howard Hawks kids these silly romances, but two hours and 40 minutes among the wildebeests is apt to send moviegoers stampeding...
With their sales off 30% because of U.S. restrictions on textile imports, Hong Kong's textile makers are asking the government of the colony to impose production controls on their industry. But M.I.T.-educated P. Y. (for Ping Yuan) Tang, 63, Hong Kong's biggest textile magnate, has other plans as well. He intends to add synthetics to his cotton cloth output, has expanded his zipper production, and is considering going into electronics. Says Tang: "Diversification is the long-term solution for Hong Kong." To give the island colony time to diversify, however, Tang argues that...
Half & Half. Gradually, over the last three decades, Robert Frost has abandoned the subject matter that made him famous - woods softly filling with snow, the birches and stone walls of New Eng land, the brook in the back pasture, the tang in autumn air at apple-picking time - and he no longer attempts the lyric intensity of his earlier works. Increasingly, he is content with sententious verse written with the negligent, remembered skill of a master craftsman. The old man is fascinated by the adventuring spirit of man. Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost...
More appropriate lines, say the refugees in Hong Kong, come from another Tang dynasty poet...
Parades, songs, slogans, brass bands and banners are constantly used to incite the people; plays, books, meetings, orations ceaselessly repeat the message that old China is now a country grown young. A poem of the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) reads...