Word: chuan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suffolk University is celebrating China Week. In the lobby of the Donahue Building at 41 Temple St., Beacon Hill, there's an exhibit of Chinese crafts, calligraphy and painting, and today at 1 p.m. there's a lecture demostration on Chinese painting and T'ai Chi Chuan, with Chinese food served...
...walked past Whangpoo Park, which until 1928 bore the sign, NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED. The main part of Chung Shan Road pulsates with exercisers: sword dancers, slow-motion shadowboxers practicing the ancient art of tai chi chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only...
...Soft, resilient and apparently harmless, rubber balloons seem like ideal toys for toddlers; some kids even like to nibble the knot. But balloons can also be dangerous, report three Honolulu physicians in the journal Pediatrics. Drs. Yi-Chuan Ching, J. Dempsey Huitt and George Nagao say that balloons that burst while being chewed or inflated can explode with such force that fragments of rubber may be propelled back into the mouth and windpipe, causing asphyxiation. The trio base their warning on a review of a score of fatal accidents plus their own observations of two other cases. One two-year...
Warrior Arts of the Orient, a demonstration of Aikido, Iaido, Sai, Kung-Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, and the Samurai sword. John Hancock Hall...
...only previous appearance of a Communist Chinese delegation in the U.N. occurred in 1950, when Peking sent a nine-man team led by General Wu Hsiu-chuan to New York to "discuss" the Korean crisis. One U.N. veteran who heard the general's shrill tirades remembers Wu as "the loudest man we've ever had here." Peking's leaders have never exactly venerated the institution. Leery of its peace-keeping attempts, Chou has derisively called the U.N. "an international gendarmerie." In a recent interview in a Japanese newspaper, the Mao regime's leading intellectual, Kuo Mojo, called...