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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek decided on Dr. Wong when his first two choices refused. Stocky Chang Chun, the Gimo's sworn brother and old comrade in arms, had been Premier during the military and economic disasters of the past year. Complaining of chronic bronchitis, chronic fatigue and chronic criticism, Chang said he had had enough. When the Gimo appealed to him in the name of their old friendship, asked him to continue as Premier, Chang answered: "Friendship is friendship, and business is business. This is business-and I can't bear it any longer." The following...
...became a Christian when he was 16, as the result of a Saturday-evening Bible class at the home of a Methodist missionary. Soon after his graduation from Choon-chun Middle School, the Japanese jailed him for 2½ years for patriotic activities...
Back in China, people were not so easily deceived. They did not refer to Feng as the "Christian General." They had always called him tao-ko chiang-chun, or Turn-Spear General. But then, most American liberals don't speak Chinese...
...some polling places children presented the proxies of their parents, servants those of their masters. Premier Chang Chun himself had to scold the curious who pressed around to watch him write his choice: "This isn't right. We must vote in secret." But, as the Premier added, it was "the first time." Chinese hoped for improvement. Said scholarly, bespectacled Tseng Chi, head of the Chinese Youth Party: "Perhaps six years from now, at the next general election, we'll know more...
...Crimson lineup: Batcheler, g: Burrowes, rf; Scully, lf; Mavor, rh; Louria, ch; Ogfan, lh; Spivak, ro; Potter, ri; Aguirre, of; Chun, li; Dawson, lo. Substitutes: Blanco, Heisler, Estin, Harrop. Seamans, Carswell, Toulmin, Jessner, Wallace Ragle. Gibbert...