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...will live and work in Thayer's "Chinese compound" for nine weeks this summer, and will continue to receive four hours of Chinese instruction a week during the coming academic year. Next summer some will attend college language programs in the U.S.; others will spend six weeks at Formosa's Tunghai University...
...dozen of red-and-white packaged brands with remarkably similar names: Coalgate, Goalgate, Goldkey, Goldcat and Goldrat. The fact that all these ring like the name of the world's bestselling toothpaste-Colgate-is no coincidence. With the indulgent tolerance of Asian governments, most notably in Formosa, hustling commercial pirates are cashing in all over the Far East by duplicating U.S. consumer products-at least on the outside...
...year, but President Kennedy last week authorized the immediate entry of 5,000 Hong Kong Chinese-they will not be new refugees from over the border, but skilled and educated Chinese from an already processed list of 19,000 who have been waiting for years for U.S. visas. On Formosa, President Chiang Kai-shek ordered that all refugees who wanted to come to Formosa be admitted, after political screening...
Hong Kong was somewhat skeptical of Chiang's proposal. Formosa already claims a population density of 770 per sq. mi. (second only to The Netherlands), and its birth rate is greater than its annual increase in food. Besides, the screening process in the past has proved excruciatingly slow, and transportation was not readily available...
...Communist move caught the free world off balance: since most of the 70,000 peasants who had poured across the border had been promptly shoved back again by the British, there were now practically no refugees to rescue. What Britain, the U.S. and Formosa did have, however, was a breathing space in which to make some orderly decisions about just what could and should be done if Red China again opens the escape door to its hungry, hapless citizens...