Word: china
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mistakes in Typing. But grey though Shanghai became, it was still gayer than the rest of China. Thousands of "volunteer" workers were shipped out to forced labor, but hundreds of thousands of desperate peasants poured in. The population leaped from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000. By 1956, the baffled Reds gave up trying to reduce Shanghai. Factories were restored, new industries developed. Satellite towns housing 200,000 workers grew up on the city's expanding outskirts...
...highly stylized mixture of musical drama and myth that the Imperial Dancers brought with them is known as Gagaku, meaning "noble and elegant music." Imported to Japan from China in the 8th century A.D., Gagaku was confined to the court in the 17th century, has been seen by the general public only since the end of World War II. No longer supported by the court, the troupe still uses the resplendent gold-and-silk costumes privately owned by the Emperor; a Pinkerton man is guarding them during the troupe's 16 Manhattan performances. (The troupe will also...
...seven-day meeting in Indianapolis, and by the time the last of the nearly 1,000 commissioners (delegates) went home, it was clear that the Presbyterians had covered a lot of ground. Items: ¶ In two separate resolutions the Assembly took note of the vexed question of recognizing Communist China and admitting it to the U.N., which roiled U.S. Protestant waters when the Fifth World Order Study Conference, meeting in Cleveland last fall, came out flatfooted in favor of both recognition and admittance. The Presbyterians were careful to tread more softly. A resolution drafted by the Committee on Social Education...
...last seven years,"the Red Chinese have applied every conceivable pressure to force the International Olympic Committee to recognize them as the only representatives of China. They boycotted sessions attended by Nationalist China representatives, withdrew their athletes from events in which Nationalists were entered, finally stalked out of the I.O.C. itself. Soviet Russia and other Communist satellites added their weight. Last week, at the annual meeting in Munich, I.O.C. delegates caved in, voted to expel the Nationalists as the first step toward accepting Red China as "the representative of China." If the Nationalists wanted to reapply as representatives of Formosa...
Died. Charles Alien Ward, 72, two-fisted Minnesota advertising executive (president of St. Paul's Brown & Bige-low); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An adventurer in his youth. Ward roamed the waterfronts in China, prospected for gold in Alaska, ended up in Leavenworth in 1919 on a narcotics conviction. His cellmate turned out to be H. H. Bigelow. then the penny-pinching president of Brown & Bigelow, in prison for income tax evasion. After both were freed, Bigelow offered Ward a job. helped him rise through the ranks of Brown & Bigelow. Ward took over the company...