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Through the years, death, division and defection removed almost all the old Chinese Nationalist figures who fought at the side of President Chiang Kaishek. But after 35 years, one of the ablest of the young officers who taught at Chiang's famous Whampoa Military Academy in the '20s still serves his chief with conspicuous devotion. Last week, to instill discipline and order in a government that has lost much authority through parliamentary squabbling and faltering leadership, the President accepted the resignation of respected but ailing Banker-Premier O. K. Yui and named as Premier his tested old troubleshooter...
Squashed Amendments. In two days of debate, only a few Democrats rose to tackle the real meaning of the amendments in the light of global necessity. One was Texas' George Mahon, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the House's ablest military specialist. While his fellow Democrats sat silent, Mahon spoke of his deep friendship for Vinson, then, with all the emotion he could muster, told why he was aligning himself with the Republicans: "I am not going to rebuff the President on this issue. I do not think it would be good statesmanship or good politics...
...last class day for President Lowell, often described as the "ablest confetti man in the Yard." The "lasting impression" of one participant was that of Lowell, "his hat in his hand, confetti in his thin, gray hair, watching the merry makers leave the stadium. Finally, as if reluctant to leave himself, he turned and followed the crowd out of the giant athletic field...
...electorate, announced his candidacy for this year's G.O.P. nomination for governor. If he gets past four other Republican hopefuls at a state convention this June, the least-known Alsop brother will come up against incumbent Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff, no egghead, but one of the ablest votegetters in Connecticut...
...Soviet Ambassador Menshikov is one of the ablest, perhaps the ablest, of the Kremlin diplomats, a man dedicated to the proposition that no infiltration works quite as well as amiable respectability. He is a man expertly versed in change of pace; yet he is nonetheless a hard-core Red. In Asia, he was denouncing "certain colonial powers, particularly the United States." As if the cold war were a U.S. aberration, he says now: "The Soviet Union has no intention of imposing its ideas on any people by force." From sunup to bedtime, he goes about his rounds with...