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...Communists are not much noted for a sense of humor, but there must have been at least a glimmer of a smile when they elected a former U.S. Air Force colonel as an alternate member of the party's Central Committee. The colonel in question is Dr. Chien Hsueh-shen, a product of M.I.T. and Caltech. Chien, who was commissioned in the U.S.A.F. during World War II, headed a missile-research team in Germany at war's end. In 1955, he was expelled from the U.S. as a suspected Communist. Since then he has made important contributions...
Peking's Municipal Communist Party Committee and a high-ranking member of both the national party's Central Committee and the Politburo. Then two months ago, Peng suddenly dropped from public view. Last week Peking radio finally broke its silence by announcing the appointment of Li Hsueh-feng, a 60-year-old party wheel horse, as Peking party boss, replacing Peng. Almost certainly, Peng would also be booted from the Central Committee, Politburo and his mayoralty...
...asceticism. Chen prefers Western suits to the stern, closed-collar pajamas affected by Mao, Chou and Liu, plays go (a Japanese game of strategy) like an expert-though one Japanese master found him "too hasty." In Shanghai some years ago, Chen's friendliness with Chekiang Opera Star Yuan Hsueh-feng was the talk of the Bund. He once said: "Without women, a guerrilla unit has no soul...
...transports capable of carrying a 15-ton load 4,000 miles. Thus most major Asian cities-Tokyo, Manila, New Delhi, Bangkok, Rangoon and others-may well find themselves within Red Chinese atomic range some time early in 1965. Peking, moreover, has launched a missile program guided by Chien Hsueh-shen, 52, a 1938 Caltech Ph.D. grad and jet-propulsion specialist. Chien was chief of the rocket section of the U.S. Scientific Commission on National Defense during World War II. In 1950 he was caught trying to slip out of California, bound for Red China. He was finally permitted to leave...
...back their full-throated approval: "What was beautiful is now ugly! What was ugly is now beautiful!" It was International Women's Day, and no fewer than 10,000 Hero Women and members of Women's Groups were on hand for the big rally. There was Hsu Hsueh-hui, who lost both hands "in a fight with Kuomintang bandits" and now wears an artificial pair made in the Soviet Union "especially for shaking hands with other people." Captain Chen Chi-yen ("The party made a pilot of me, a 32-year-old peasant girl") was there...