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Kennedy and top U.S. officials were seeing face to face the man who may well succeed his father as President of Nationalist China. On Formosa, Ching-kuo is known as "Little Chiang," and his only major rival for the top job is Vice President Chen Cheng, who suffers from a liver ailment and has been in semiretirement since June. Born in Chekiang province to the Gimo's first wife, a peasant girl who was later killed in a Japanese bombing raid, Ching-kuo was 16 when the Gimo sent him to Moscow in 1925 "to learn more about revolutionary...
Ching-kuo has repeatedly been accused of engaging in secret talks with Peking, presumably with the object of making a deal after the Gimo's death. Those who know him best scoff at the idea that he would ever hand Formosa over to Peking...
...trip to Washington neared its end last week, the mystery man met newsmen, who found him seated on a gold-embroidered sofa in the Chinese embassy. Red China, said Ching-kuo through his interpreter, is at its weakest point in history and Formosa correspondingly at its strongest. His visit was intended to bring about "common understanding" between his country and the U.S. Did that mean there were misunderstandings? Ching-kuo replied with a loud "No!" even before the question was translated. With a brisk, "That's all," the interview was concluded, and Ching-kuo drove off to Princeton...
...slug killer." Some of the larvae will kill only one particular species of snail; others eagerly attack almost any snail up to 19 times their own weight. Many scio-myzids are death for two of the three types of snails that carry schistosomiasis. The third snail host, prevalent in Formosa and the Philippines, has a limestone trap door inside its shell that mangles the attacking larva...
Crocodiles Are In. Color can be an Oriental problem: purple is a noble shade in Japan but represents death in Burma; and on Formosa, despite the political connotations, red is considered a lucky color, and advertisements abound in crimson. Africans, along with admiration for anything "new from America," have extremely literal reactions. Gillette is a heavy seller because it uses wrappers that depict a razor blade slicing a crocodile in half to emphasize sharpness. But literal-mindedness can be a problem. After her first glimpse of television, one native woman asked: "When all the good men have killed...