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...Vietnamese festival of Tet combines the qualities of Christmas and the end of Ramadan, the Hindu feast of lights and the pagan rites of spring. To welcome the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese housewives last week prepared mounds of hanh chung - rice cakes covered with a stew of pork fat, pickled onions and rancid fish sauce. Fathers wrapped money in red paper for the children and raised the cay neu, a 30-ft. bamboo pole topped with offerings of betel nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head...
...following article by Huang Ch'ang, associate professor of Physics at Peking University, is taken from the "Chung-kuo Ch'ing-nien Pao" of Peking. It first appeared under the title "Here and There at Harvard University" on January...
...Southwest sun all their days. Rumors spread that Peter Hurd would be selected to do the President's official portrait, but the first Hurd knew about it was when he went to the White House in May 1965 and was introduced by Johnson to South Korean President Chung Hee Park. "I want you to meet my friend Peter Hurd," said L.B.J. "He is going to do my portrait." Shortly afterward, Hurd, now 62, received a letter from the White House Historical Association officially awarding him the assignment-at $6,000, half his usual...
Died. General Pai Chung-hsi, 73, Chiang Kai-shek's ablest commander, who, along with General Li Tsung-jen (with whom he was so closely associated that they were usually referred to collectively as "Li-Pai"), provided the Kuomintang with its best troops, fought effectively against war lords (1926), Japanese invaders (1937-45) and Reds until the mainland fell, at which point Pai joined Chiang on Formosa, Li went to the U.S.;* of a stroke; in Taipei...
...conference, Lyndon Johnson crowned the U.S. diplomatic effort with a 4½-hour performance that showed the President at his best. Soon after his arrival, the President paid" a visit to South Korea's flinty, austere President Chung Hee Park. Blending flattery and cajolery for the next hour, he lauded Park for steering Korea from military to civilian government, hastened to assure him that the U.S. was not seeking peace out of weakness but out of a desire to attack "the underlying roots of the problem-human misery." Noting that he had entered public life to help people...