Word: chiaotung
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...mention that 74 of Red China's top scientists and engineers hold degrees from American universities. Indeed, the chief of Peking's missile development program, Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen, 57, was once Goddard Professor of Jet Propulsion at Caltech. A graduate of Shanghai's Chiaotung University, Tsien came to the U.S. in 1935 as a mechanical engineer, won a master's degree at M.I.T. the next year, then went on to Caltech. Commissioned a colonel in the Air Force during World War II, he headed a brain trust in Germany...
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