Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huang was one of the Nationalists' most glittering military figures. Born in Anhwei 59 years ago, stocky, pipe-smoking Wei Li-huang rose from the ranks to hold such resounding titles as commander in chief of the First War Zone, commander in chief of the Chinese Expedition to Burma, and finally commander in chief of the Chinese Army. He became a full general, and a member of the Kuomintang's powerful Central Executive Committee. Chiang Kai-shek was so delighted with him that he renamed a town in Wei's honor-an honor that no other living...
Another Senator, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, was back at work for TV, interviewing three heads of state-Franco, U Nu of Burma, Nehru-for CBS's See It Now (to the tune of much grumbling by G.O.P. colleagues at work on Capitol Hill). And Oklahoma's Robert Kerr defended both the oil industry and the Democratic record on Meet the Press...
Down the Line. Before Formosa his trip had been little short of historic. The first U.S. Secretary of State to travel in continental Asia, he began by flying from the SEATO conference in Bangkok (TIME, March 7) to neutral Burma (where Premier U Nu received him with considerably more coolness than he had shown to Red China's Chou En-lai eight months before). After a day in Burma, he traded his big Constellation for a lighter C-47, so he could land in the Indo-China kingdom of Laos. Cambodia came next day; there he listened attentively...
...craftsmen, four janitors or two taximen where one would do. Costs and wages have gone up so much that Japan is no longer able to undersell everyone else in the world market. Eager British, German and other traders have invaded old Japanese markets. Some of the old customers-Indonesia, Burma, the Philippines-are still too mindful of Japanese aggression to want to do much business again. "No amount of amnesia on our part," a Japanese newspaper reminded its readers recently, "will erase the impressions made on the minds of the injured parties." World War II wiped out Japan...
...Another Johns Hopkins branch, with five students, was started in Rangoon, Burma, last June...