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...four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...
Washington showed no signs of objecting. But last week Harry Truman acted-after a fashion. He appointed cob-nosed old (74) Cyrus Ching to the high-sounding post of director of the Wage Stabilization Board, though the board did not yet exist...
...director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, big, pipe-smoking Cyrus Ching had stuck his lanky legs under countless negotiating tables, earned himself a reputation for homespun, amiable integrity, helped solve many a minor strike, some major ones. Both management & labor trusted him. Forty-six years ago, working as an equipment supervisor on Boston's Elevated Railway Co., he once almost electrocuted himself repairing an overhead wire, blowing out every fuse in the system. He came to a week later, badly burned and partially blind, lay in bed for 15 weeks. Nobody from the company ever came...
...mediator, Ching puffs imperturbably on his pipe as he listens, grunts understandingly, grins often, gets a relaxed atmosphere with homely saws. He is good at it. But is he the tough man for the thankless job of wage stabilizer? "I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig," Ching likes to say. "You get dirty and besides the pig likes it." When the time comes to crack down hard on employers or workers, the job may need a man who doesn't mind getting dirty...
...Simply Chaos." Government mediators-ruminant Cyrus Ching and Fact-Finder David Cole-fingered their chins. Out around the country, cities, steel mills, schools and hospitals scraped the bottoms of their coal bins. Governors declared a state of emergency. A coal official predicted what would happen if there were no settlement soon: "Simply chaos...