Relic of bygone era Macao outpost of Portugal in shadow of China
Macao, a relic of imperialism, sits opposite China with a border guard watching a taxi bring an American tourist to the bank. A Hong Kong importer loses $6,000 at the Hotel Lisbon casino as the island retains a gunboat diplomacy air amid dwindling colonial contests.
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Macao
Duck Channel
Lisbon
Hong Kong
China
United States
Wang Hsia
Portugal
Red China
Macao Portrait From a Quiet Portuguese Backwater
In a Sunday feature, Macao is described as a peaceful backwater with cobbled streets and incense-laden temples. The piece notes a population around 300,000, mostly Chinese, few being Portuguese, and explains travel routes via Hong Kong. It outlines historical tensions with China and the 1966 67 riots that shaped its governance under Portuguese rule.
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China
Macao
Peking
Red China
Rua Do Praia Grande
San Tiago da Barra
Yellow River
Hong Kong
Asia
Orient
Seniors To See Hello Dolly With Footlighters In Cincinnati
Middletown Area Senior Citizens plan a busy week of activities highlighted by a Friday trip to watch Hello Dolly performed by Footlighters Inc of Cincinnati. Bus departures are at 6 p.m. from the Senior Citizens Activity Center. Other events include chorus rehearsals, lunch, discussions, service circles, luncheons, card parties, crafts, dancing, a birthday and anniversary celebration, and a Sunshine Committee meeting.
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Middletown Area
Footlighters, Inc
Cincinnati
Wednesday Vote Set On SST Deadline Looms
Washington AP reports the Senate will vote next Wednesday on spending 85 million dollars to close out the supersonic transport program or restart it. The date was set after bipartisan talks following a House decision to resume construction of two prototypes.
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Washington
Senate
Religion Not Holding Pakistan Together
AP report from Singapore describes how 23 years of shared Moslem faith fail to hold Pakistan together amid a brutal civil war in East Pakistan. It details mass killings, language tensions, refugee flows, and economic collapse, noting cross religious violence and the derailed reconstruction effort. It ends with a tangential note on the Great Wall of China.
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Singapore
Pakistan
East Bengal
Partition
India
East Pakistan
Youth Returns Lost Billfold in Honest Find
Nine year-old James G Brown found a billfold on the way to school and returned it to Walter Wilke's grocery. The owner was traced through a bill in the purse and a twenty dollar bill was recovered. The finder said he wanted to leave it there.
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Marie Antonette
Louis XVI
France
United States
Massachusetts
U.S. Supreme Court
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Janet Gaynor
Emil Jannings
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
John F. Kennedy
Ottawa
Canada
da Nang
South Vietnam
Israel
Suez Canal
Canton, Ill
James G. Brown
Walter Wilke
Wilkes
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