Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gimo's home province of Chekiang, first caught his boss's eye after he was wounded fighting in the Canton army in 1923. Chiang made him an artillery instructor at Whampoa Military Academy (Chen took an instant dislike to a flashy young political instructor named Chou En-lai), then gave him the toughest combat assignments. Told to make order out of the postwar mess in Manchuria, Chen invited Manchurians to bring their complaints straight to him, and reportedly had 20 generals shot for stealing. Invalided south for a series of stomach-ulcer operations, he was ordered to Formosa...
...iron gates of 400-year-old La Fortaleza, where Muñoz gave him a state dinner in the ancient fort's great candlelit dining room. Said Nixon: "I couldn't think of a better place to be." Said Muñoz: "Mr. Vice President, está en su casa [you are in your house...
...gives his readers their three cents' worth of tract and polemic. Major party decisions are announced in customarily unsigned editorials, e.g., last month's blast at "deviationist" Yugoslavia. On occasion, People's Daily even carries punditry under the most imposing bylines in the nation: Premier Chou En-lai and Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...outside world knows little about the man who is generally ranked No. 2 to Mao Tse-tung. Greater headlines have gone to Chou En-lai and to Marshal Chu Teh, but the man next in line is presumed to be Liu Shao-chi, Moscow-trained party theoretician. Last week Red China published his 16,000-word keynote speech to the 19-day closed session of the eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. His confident theme: "In the past the party concentrated its efforts mainly on socialist revolution . . . Now we can and must concentrate on socialist construction...
...Baltimore law student and National Guard Pfc., up on his first flight. At 8,500 ft. over western Maryland the T-Bird headed into a thin cloud in a steep right turn, slipped out of the cloud and sheared into the side of a Capital Airlines turboprop Viscount en route from Pittsburgh to Baltimore. Both planes spun to the ground. All seven passengers and four crew members of the Viscount were killed. So was Law Student Chalmers. The sole survivor was Jet Pilot McCoy, who somehow managed to parachute clear. "It happened when we were cruising in clear...