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...century there lived in China a great painter named Chang Seng-yu, who one day finished a mural of four white dragons without eyes. When observers protested the omission, Chang pointed out that to give such fierce dragons sight might be dangerous. His critics persisted; Chang gave in and painted eyes on two of the dragons. "At once," the story goes, "the air became filled with thunder and lightning, the wall broke down, and the dragons ascended on clouds to heaven. But the two other dragons who had no eyes remained in their places...
...father," says K. C. Li Jr., 40. chairman of New York s Wah Chang (Great Development) Corp., "wanted to make Chinese activity in the U.S. mean more than the laundry and the restaurant." Li Sr., a British-educated mining engineer who died early this year, built Wah Chang (1960 sales: $35 million) into a major free-world producer of tungsten. Now K. C. Jr., a Swarthmore graduate who flew with General Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, is out to enhance his company's reputation by intensifying research into atom-age metals. The new emphasis has already produced...
Next morning, Chen, along with Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan, was back at the White House for a more business like discussion of the key question that worried his government: What really is the U.S. attitude toward Red China's admission to the U.N.? Kennedy made it clear that the U.S. attitude had not softened, at one point told Chen: "Even if you wanted the Chicoms in the United Nations, we would still oppose it for our own reasons...
Under such pressure, South Korea's newspaper staffs have shrunk from a peak of 100,000 during Chang's regime to 15,000. Many reporters under 31 years of age have been fired on orders from the junta so that they can be drafted into the army and the National Construction Corps. Despite it all, few Koreans are sympathetic to the plight of the press. It has engineered its own ruin...
Sensitive Country Boy: Thanks largely to the persistent shrill of newspaper criticism, Premier Chang was unable to develop a base of public support, was fair game for the tough and impatient army officers. The junta wasted no time in swooping down on the rampant press, quickly outlawed 76 newspapers and 305 agencies, imprisoned 200 bogus newsmen. Chastised, the press now ventures only mild jabs at the junta and completely avoids direct criticism of Pak.* We don't think we should go too far in criticizing the military government, because keeping the business going is more important than speaking...