Actress Joan Collins, centre, listens as Queen Elizabeth II chats with William Dix, who plays Tommy Stubbins in the film Doctor Dolittle when she attended the premiere showing of the film at the Odeon cinema, London, UK, Dec. 12, 1967.

Politicians and businesspeople in Hong Kong paid close attention to British efforts to join the European Economic Community (EEC). The British colony was exempted from most tariffs in Britain, an arrangement that could not survive EEC enlargement.