Word: hsiang
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Died. H. H. (for Hsiang-hsi) Kung, 86, Nationalist Chinese banker politician who became brother-in-law to Ge eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek when he married into the powerful Soong banking family, as Finance Minister from 1933 to 1945 introduced the boon of standardized paper currency, but during his premiership (1939-45) was helpless against the war-wrought inflation that left China sliding toward bankruptcy, after which he was eased into honorary jobs and retirement in the U.S.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Upon reaching Peking, the 15 young travelers went directly to the aid of Shih Chuan-hsiang, "a famous model sanitation worker" who carries night soil (human excrement), in order "to put into practice the spirit expounded in Chairman Mao's writings." They helped him haul his wares and "did minor repairs in the public toilets." Old Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with...
...local woman commune member, Yeh Hsiang-shu (poor peasant), cut off and stole from this production group seven heads of white cabbage totaling 6 chin. Yeh, when forced to speak, had to admit that her husband Chou Hsing-jung had also stolen some vegetables. The production group seized Chou also, then took man and wife, with hands tied, and hung them by the wrists from the basketball goal for ten minutes. Then Platoon Commander Yang Ju-hsing announced two conditions: "First, they must give us back 3,000 catties (two tons) of cabbage; second, if they do not give...
...more useful to the Soviets was a second Red Chinese defector who may well turn out to be a prize in the Sino-Soviet cold war to date. He was Chou Hsiang-pu, since 1957 a second secretary of Peking's legation in London. Chou was en route back home via Moscow with his wife and two children when he decided to stay in the Russian capital. Word soon leaked out to the Western press, but Kremlin officials clammed up about their catch and refused to confirm or deny the escape. One reason for Moscow's reticence...
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...