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...blossoms to the Robinsons' abode 80 feet above the jungle-delightfully furnished with flotsam, jetsam (down to the last doily), plus a fabulous view. And the Oakland, (Calif.) Children's Fairyland has built a Chinese Tree Teahouse offering tea and cookies aloft. Halfway up, an open-mouthed dragon invites the small fry to slide down his throat. "Kids will go nuts when they see it," says a prideful spokesman...
...profound effect on the social fabric of America, quietly battling by due process, without moral or physical fear, the dragon of prejudice, armed with the law as his sword and the Constitution as his shield. Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense LL.D...
...groves, Jew and Arab stare bitterly at one another, firing on anything that moves. Would-be infiltrators cause few diplomatic headaches, a U.N. media tor wryly explains, because "we simply repatriate the corpses." Bisecting the city of Jerusalem is a grim buffer zone of tangled barbed wire and antitank dragon's feet, flanked by concrete pill boxes and rusting "DANGER" signs...
...George, the patron saint of England, earned his place in medieval Christian legend by spearing a dragon that was just about to gobble up a Libyan maiden. St. Christopher was a sort of Jolly Green Giant of the early church who ferried wayfarers across a river on his back; one of his passengers turned out to be the child Jesus, and Christopher naturally became the patron saint of travelers...
...Days at Peking. The year is 1900. In a dragon-encrusted ballroom reminiscent of the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theater, David Niven, the British ambassador to Peking, is throwing a diplomatic ball to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. The music stops, and there is a shiver of terror: a brocaded sedan chair brings Prince Tuan, complete with jeweled-gold fingernail scabbards and about as welcome as Dr. Fu Manchu at a meeting of the A.M.A. Prince Tuan (ex-dancer Robert Helpmann) is the leader of the "Fists of Righteousness" (known as Boxers in the occidental press), those...