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Factories, mines, farms all have "model brigades" which challenge other brigades in a race of production. The Ma Heng-chang lathe brigade of machine-tool Factory No. 5 in Mukden has gained fame by reducing the time for producing a spiral roller-bearing from two hours to 15 minutes. Coalminer Lo Yung-chin of the Fengfeng pit in Huainan colliery holds the title in his class, with 254 tons dug during a one-man shift of 6½ hours...
...Mukden, after studiously ignoring him for about four months, Communist officials finally paid some attention to white-goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, 56. The Reds arrested him and four members of his staff. The charge: beating up a discharged Chinese employee, one Chi Yu-heng, after he had demanded severance pay. The entire population of Mukden, the Communist radio reported, was demanding punishment for "this savage and brutal act perpetrated by American imperialists." Ward has not been allowed to communicate with Washington since his arrest...
...together to talk out their differences, as if only the wrinkle in Molotov's forehead and the puff of George Marshall's lips had prevented complete agreement between the U.S. and Russia all these months. An anonymous Nanking man-in-the-street was more realistic: "Heng hao" (very good), said he. "Now will the price of rice go down...
...Chien-hung (TIME, Nov. 10) was one candidate who tasted both the sweet and the sour. Slim, husky-voiced Miss Li, 31, a Kuomintang member for only two years, was popular for helping families in her Nanking ward to get relief and jobs. But her rival, Miss Liu Heng-ching, a dignified veteran of 20 years in the Kuomintang, pressed the claims of long and dutiful party service. What to do? Miss Liu proposed a deal: if popular Miss Li withdrew, veteran Miss Liu would serve only half her three-year term, resign in favor of Miss Li. "Never!" cried...
...whom China's medical burden falls most heavily is 56-year-old Dr. J. Heng Liu, a onetime director of PUMC. Harvard-trained Dr. Liu was China's public health chief before the war, and Army Surgeon General during the war, is now chief medical officer of CNRRA (a cousin of UNRRA) and medical director of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China...