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...desperate students managed to escape by the Chao Phya River at the rear of the campus. Others who ran for the streets were set on by the rightist mob. Several were beaten close to death, then hanged, or doused with gasoline and set afire. One was decapitated. The bodies of the lynched victims strung up on trees were mutilated by rioters, who gouged out their eyes, slit their throats and lashed at them with clubs and chains...
...Rulan Chao Pian '44, co-master of South House and professor of East Asian Languages and Civilization, invited four of the delegation to dine in Cabot dining hall followed by discussion with students. All the delegates spent the night as guests in faculty homes...
...Chao Kuo-chang...
...Chicago Mayor Richard Daley bestowed honorary citizenship on the visitors. In Washington they donned hard hats to interview construction workers. Any mention of statistics brought out pens and notebooks. Informed during an inspection of an Illinois ranch that only 4% of the 220 million U.S. citizens work on farms, Chao Chi-hua, a deputy director in Peking's Foreign Ministry, marveled: "In China, it still takes four people to feed five." Humorously urged by Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent "to spread the word around that the Bay State has the finest lobster and the best Governor...
...main, therapy and self-knowledge come from physical labor. Chao says that he is bone-tired after a day weeding or planting rice, but he has found a new meaning to work. Adds Wang Tien-san, 44, head of the school's revolutionary committee: "By doing physical labor, we maintain the true feeling of the laboring people...