Word: chen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last March, when the U.S. slapped drastic new quotas on its imports of cotton textiles. Hong Kong's burgeoning textile industry suffered a severe case of the shudders. Among the hardest hit was C.C. (for Chen Che) Lee, 51, the shrewd, Shanghai-born entrepreneur who built Hong Kong's first postwar textile mill. As the Crown Colony's biggest producer of finished cotton garments. Lee had been selling up to a million dollars' worth of garments a month in the U.S. Lee had to do something fast or his profit margin would be wiped...
...Togetherness. Unemployment freed him for more revolutionary talk in Parisian cafés and garrets with men like Teng Hsiao-ping, Chou En-lai and Chen Yi (now, respectively, Secretary-General of the party, Premier and Foreign Minister of Red China). He also found time to fall in love with an energetic, determined Hunanese girl named Tsai Chang. Soon both joined the Communist Party and were married. In 1924, after stopping off in Moscow, Li and his wife headed back to China, and, at the party's orders, went their separate ways-Tsai Chang to Shanghai to agitate among...
...specializing in economics as deputy to Chen Yun, a pragmatic labor organizer from Shanghai. With the Red conquest of the mainland, Li became Minister of Heavy Industry, and went to Moscow in 1950 to help negotiate a 30-year treaty of alliance with Joseph Stalin. In 1953 Li signed the pact under which the Soviet Union agreed to supply money and materiel for China's first Five-Year Plan. His reward was promotion to Chairman of the State Planning Commission...
...will not find a crack in the Sino-Soviet union any more than you will find one in a duck's egg," said Red Chi nese Foreign Minister Chen Yi last July. Scarcely five months later, the duck's egg was cracked wide open. Hatched was an ugly little basilisk, confronting Moscow with a threat to its supremacy far graver than Yugoslavia's defection in 1948. The Soviet Union has the political muscle to keep most of the world's 81 Communist parties in line, and superior economic resources to offer poor nations willing to boost...
...leaders, who were all grand chaps. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung took Monty swimming in the Yangtze River (surrounded by 60 nervous lifeguards). Mao's heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi, whose icy demeanor frightens even his colleagues, struck Monty as "a thinker, an intellectual": tough Foreign Minister Chen Yi was "a most genial and pleasant person and has a great sense of humor," and Chou En-lai possessed "a first-class brain...