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...Died. Chang Chia Hutukhtu, 64, among the most important "Living Buddhas" (not to be confused with Baltimore resident Dilowa Hutukhtu who defended Far East expert Owen Lattimore in 1950 against charges of aiding Communists in China, and who is known as the "Living Buddha of Mongolia"), spiritual leader of thousands of monks and millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died...
They are the Pu brothers--Shou-chang and Shan--and they both accompanied Chou on his tour of South Asia. Shou-chang got his doctorate in Economics here in 1946, while his brother received a similar degree four years later. Both did their undergraduate work at the University of Michigan...
...Candidate Patrick Henry Shinicky (Shin Ikhi), had died while campaigning (TIME, May 14). His only other challenger, ex-Communist Cho Bong Am, had gone into hiding, claiming to have received threats of assassination. Of six candidates for the vice presidency, all had professed support of Rhee except John M. Chang, Shinicky's running mate. Rhee had confidently given his official backing to Lee Ki Poong, speaker of the National Assembly...
...half the vote. The late P. H. Shinicky polled an extraordinary ghost vote of nearly 1,500,000. But the real surprise of the ballot box was the defeat of Rhee's hand-picked vice presidential candidate by Rhee's bitter foe, husky, affable, 56-year-old Chang Myun, who anglicizes his name as John M. Chang. A onetime friend of Rhee's and former Korean Ambassador to Washington, U.S.-educated (Manhattan College) Chang thus became eligible to succeed Rhee in the event of his death. While the government and the Democratic Party squabbled over disputed votes...
...those who openly defied the Mao faction. Lo's big break came during one of the fratricidal struggles within the Communist forces, when he was ordered to clean up the anti-Mao faction in the Fourth Front Army. This he did with "such crudeness. savagery and maliciousness" (says Chang Kuo-tao, ex-Politburo member, now a refugee in Hong Kong), that he earned the gratitude of Mao, his chief sponsor today...