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...China's first top-level Communist purge. The terms of the denunciation closely followed the Russian pattern, but if the Chinese leaders had intended to follow up expulsion with a Stalinist-type public confession of guilt by Kao, they were defeated by an old Chinese custom. Like many a great imperial mandarin before him, Kao took the proverbial way out of his situation: he committed suicide. Thus Kao Kang, said the communique, showing that the Chinese Communists fully understood his protest, "expressed his ultimate betrayal of the party...
...custom, Guatemalan Presidents must prove themselves good sports by giving generously to the Eastertide Strike fund. Castillo Armas' sporting contribution to get himself panned...
Rubber Stamp. Brooklyn's Everprint Products, Inc. has put on sale a self-contained rubber stamp that carries its own ink supply good for 100,000 impressions. The padless stamp is available for standard purposes, e.g., "Paid," "Special Delivery," "Fragile," but can also be custom-made for signatures. Price: $1 for stock stamps, $2 for custom stamps...
...rifle-bearing airmen of the R.A.F. Pacifist Mayor Bland appealed to a Lancashire county councillor, who in turn appealed to the Lord Lieutenant in charge of the royal tour. Could the airmen leave their death-dealing rifles in barracks for just this once? Back came the relentless answer: "Custom cannot be changed. It is instruction to all services that arms must be carried on such parades...
...bestsellers (China to Me, The Soong Sisters), she has written the first popular biography to examine Chiang in the only way he can be understood: as a singularly great man, a lonely combination of Confucian self-discipline and Methodist virtue, forced to fight at once against centuries of obsolete custom, Japan's armed invasion, and a vicious, un-Chinese revolution inspired by Moscow...