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...Peking factory even altered its assembly line to produce Chinese lantern slides branding the U.S. as the "aggressor." And word filtered out that rail traffic between Peking, Shanghai and Canton had been disrupted-perhaps due to troop or supply movements to the Southeast Asian border...
...Frank White '66, of Winthrop House and Canton, Miss., has won the $100 first prize in the 1965 Public Speaking Awards competition. White spoke on "The Plight of Moderate Mississippians" to an audience in the Boylston Auditorium last night...
...enemies, Ayub decided that only Red China shared his dislike for India. Within six months, Ayub had signed a trade pact with China, a border agreement that threw Chinese support behind Pakistan's demands for disputed Kashmir, and a contract that established joint airline service between Karachi, Dacca, Canton and Shanghai. With that, the U.S. withheld a $4,300,000 loan for an airport at Dacca, arguing that it was hardly prepared to serve Communist Chinese air travelers. But overall U.S. aid to Pakistan continued at nearly $400 million a year...
...spread west through Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. Three armies hold rebellious Tibet, and those massed in south China total seven-one guards vulnerable Hainan Island, another is stationed in mountainous Yunnan province, and three are lined up along the North Vietnamese border. Two other armies are in reserve near Canton...
This confidence was shaken when the Chinese New Year, always a time of free spending, produced heavier than usual calls for cash. Unable to meet the unexpected demand, two small banks, Ming Tak and Canton Trust & Commercial, closed their doors in the face of clamoring depositors. As news of the closings spread, panicked shop and office workers abandoned their jobs to queue up in lines as long as 500 yards outside a dozen more banks. Thousands slept on sidewalks overnight to keep their places in line...