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...wore Chinese dress and even grew a queue. Pearl was tutored by a Confucian scholar and spoke Chinese before she spoke English. All her playmates were Chinese, and she realized that she was "different" only in 1900, when the Boxer Rebellion flared and the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi decreed that all white people must be killed. The family had to take refuge briefly in Shanghai...
...newsmen and Chinese officials clustered around her, in fact, Mrs. Nixon could have passed as a typical tourist eager to take in as many sights as possible. In her visit to the Summer Palace, a 659-acre complex that was once occupied by the Dowager Empress Tsu Hsi during the Ching Dynasty, she strolled through such exotic edifices as the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity, the Hall of Happiness in Longevity, the Hall of Dispelling the Clouds and the Pavilion of the Fragrance of Buddha. Going through the Gate of Longevity and Good Will, she remarked, "That's prophetic...
Such is the sophistication of modern man that no scientists were in danger last week of losing their heads, as had the ancient Chinese court astronomers Hsi and Ho for failing to predict the imminence of a solar eclipse. No one in the U.S. shot arrows into the sky, as Peruvian Indians often did to frighten away the beast devouring the sun. No one even thought, as had the Tahitians, that the sudden darkness meant that the sun and the moon were engaged in celestial copulation. Nor in a smog-ridden society did the midday blackness even seem all that...
...Africa, where Vanguard concentrates its efforts, is impartial enough to include a nation like Ethiopia, which votes for Peking in the U.N. It thus serves as an advertisement to countries still diplomatically uncommitted. Several countries have recognized Taipei after receiving technical advice; last week Vice Foreign Minister Yang Hsi-kung wound up his 22nd tour of the continent, bringing back diplomatic recognition from Gambia and newly independent Swaziland, and new cultural and economic agreements with four other African nations. So far, Taipei leads Peking 20 to 13 in the battle for recognition by African nations...
...Third Army" of General Lee Wun-huan, headquartered near the Thai city of Chiang Mai, and the "Fifth Army" of General Tuan Hsi-wan, with a base camp near Chiang...