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...ALFRED FRIENDLY, 49, managing editor of the Washington Post, who considers most journalism courses worthless, accuses journalism schools of training students in the same way that "the department of home economics teaches the fu ture dietitian...
...Died. Fu Tak-iam, 67, who started as a Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...
...Vnukovo, Chairman Liu raised his arms in salute to Chairman Khrushchev. But on the eve of Liu's departure, Peking had seized on the pretext of the publication of a fourth volume of Mao Tse-tung's selected works to print an "introduction"' by General Fu Chung, in which the general pointedly quoted old Mao dicta on war and peace and, inferentially, challenged Khrushchev's favorite doctrine of peaceful coexistence. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," quoted Fu. "Politics is war that sheds no blood while war is bloodshedding politics." Against...
...serious 1954 operation to correct a wartime back injury-double fusion of spinal discs, with complications from Addison's disease-brought Kennedy to the brink of death; last rites of the Catholic Church were pronounced. In the long months of convalescence, he had opportunity to contemplate his political fu ture. (Wife Jacqueline Kennedy rejects the theory that this was his moment of political truth: "That way you can sort of tie it up with Campobello and all that. To me, he never wavered on his path. I never knew what it was, but it was obviously toward the presidency...
With a contribution of $100,000 from the Pope, and the promise of $900,000 from Boston's Cardinal Richard Gushing, Archbishop Yu-pin hopes to make Formosa's University of Fu-jen one of the Far East's best schools. It will be as inter national as the church itself: Spanish Dominicans will teach medicine and nursing; French Lazarists will run the law school; Austrian Benedictines will teach agriculture; Chinese priests will teach literature; and U.S. members of the Congregation of the Divine Word will teach science and languages. The first few hundred students are expected...