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...officials were seeing face to face the man who may well succeed his father as President of Nationalist China. On Formosa, Ching-kuo is known as "Little Chiang," and his only major rival for the top job is Vice President Chen Cheng, who suffers from a liver ailment and has been in semiretirement since June. Born in Chekiang province to the Gimo's first wife, a peasant girl who was later killed in a Japanese bombing raid, Ching-kuo was 16 when the Gimo sent him to Moscow in 1925 "to learn more about revolutionary ideas." He joined...
...turned out to be far more deadly than the anonymous poet knew. For years, scientists have been busier than the old song's tailors, trying to kill certain species that carry human and animal diseases, notably the microscopic parasite that causes schistosomiasis, an ancient and virtually incurable ailment common in many warm countries. Though a selective chemical capable of destroying the guilty snails is under development and shows high promise (TIME, July 5), Cornell Entomologist Clifford O. Berg thinks that a more practical approach would be to encourage the snail's natural enemies...
...million Armstrong Rubber Co., a company about to go out of business until Walsh and a friend bought control, pumped it up to the point where it ranks as the country's fifth biggest tire producer, though no automakers use Armstrongs as original equipment; of a heart ailment; in West Haven, Conn...
...headmaster of Andover, the country's premier prep school, able biographer of Americans from Daniel Webster to Caleb Cushing, a razor-witted English teacher who broadened the curriculum (less Latin, more history) but preferred teaching, which he regarded as "an art, not a science"; of a heart ailment; in Brookline, Mass...
Wilkins stands in direct contrast to such demagogic types. The 14-hour days he normally puts in at his job are severely straining his strength. He survived surgery for stomach cancer in 1946, but he has a serious gall-bladder ailment that keeps him off the cigars and social drinking he used to enjoy. It does not, however, keep him out of his ivory Triumph sports car, which he loves to drive along parkways near the apartment he shares with his St. Louis-born wife Minnie in an integrated neighborhood in Queens...