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...recognize Red China than the pen-and-ink brigade moved to the attack. The long, lugubrious face, with its dark, pouched eyes glowering past the promontory of a nose, was riddled with caricature. A buzzing gadfly, a silly rake wooing an Oriental tart, a kook cutting loose a dangerous dragon-De Gaulle was peppered from all sides...
...Chinatown's enterprises during years when Chinese could not even get life insurance. A high point in her career came in 1962, when she helped preside over the opening of a new bank building in ceremonies featuring firecrackers and tiger dancers to drive evil spirits away from the dragon-crested doors...
...pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop of the knight's crystal blade pulls the composition together, drawing attention to the writhing dragon underfoot-a creature all the more monstrous for its emerald scales and egg-sized ruby warts...
...above all, the Prince talks of the "inevitability" of Communist China's takeover of Southeast Asia, hence may be trying to save himself by cozying up to the Red dragon. What precipitated his latest performance could well have been the overthrow and assassination of his late neighbor, South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem. Although Sihanouk and Diem were bitter enemies, the Prince was shaken by Diem's death and attributed it to the cutoff of Diem's American aid. Possibly determined never to get himself on the same vulnerable spot, Sihanouk moved quickly to lessen...
...have Mme. Nhu as the "Dragon Lady," the compleat villainess. If we are again duped by the Communists because of this prejudice, if we are hoodwinked out of Viet Nam because of dislike for this woman, then immolation by fire would be too good for all who slant the news for the sake of good copy...