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...Soviet-educated Chiang Ching-kuo, 54, or German-trained Chiang Wei-kuo, 44. who (see cut) was photographed last week like someone marching in a royal entourage, three steps to his strolling father's rear. More likely choice: tiny, tough Vice President Chen Cheng. 63, onetime Governor of Formosa, who along with Chiang was effortlessly re-elected last week...
Died. The Most Rev. William Charles Quinn, 55, Roman Catholic Bishop (appointed in 1940) of Yukiang, China, who was expelled by the Chinese Reds in 1951; of a heart attack; in Kaohsiung, Formosa...
Sound Training. In Taipei, Formosa, a district court sentenced Shen Lin-hsiang, 42, to 2½ years in jail for biting off part of her stepdaughter's ear to teach the girl "her place in the family...
...assignment came from Pope Pius XII, who was said to be irked that the cardinal had left his post. But John XXIII, deeply concerned over the Chinese Communists' efforts to establish a tame "national" Catholic Church in schism from Rome, felt that Cardinal Tien could serve on Formosa as a rallying point for Asian Catholicism and as a symbol of papal interest in the Far East...
...installed him as apostolic administrator in Formosa, which now has 200,000 Catholics (up from 12,000 in the past ten years...