RED CHINA: Where's the Dragon Lady?

After more than 300 uneventful round trips between Caracas and New York, Venezuelan Airline Pilot Henry Peter Bush, 42, a bachelor and an uncured romanticist, was bored. He wanted to give up flying some day and write adventure stories. He took his accumulated leave and set off on a round-the-world trip (Europe, the Middle East. India). Last week he turned up in Tokyo with a headline-making story right out of Terry and the Pirates. He had just come back, he said, from flying 350 miles into Red China to bring out the 13-year-old son of a wealthy Chinese businessman.

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