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...bright spot is Dr. Hu Shih, 68, philosopher, poet, historian, ex-diplomat, and China's most respected scholar. Anti-Communist Dr. Hu went off to live in the U.S. after the mainland collapse. But in 1957 the Nationalists persuaded him to head up the Academia Sinica, the nation's top research organization. His 100 scholars are now hard at work studying everything from the island's nine aborigine tribes to its 33-century collection of Chinese inscriptions. Last year Dr. Hu managed to double salaries for some professors, hopes to triple them this year. But his effort...
Self-Help. In Seattle last week Dr. Hu and his colleagues came not as beggars but as bearers of self-help ideas. They want to increase exchange of scholars, students and artists with the U.S.-and give Formosa's intellectuals something to stay home for. They propose new cooperative ventures with U.S. universities, from science to Oriental religion. They emphasize that the island itself is a unique classroom for studying the mainland. One idea: a center to collate information on Communist China for Western scholars...
...makes hu . . . humidity?" asks a little girl in a current subway advertisement. "Mother Nature," answers the advertiser, New York City's Consolidated Edison electric power company, "... heat, too! And when she combines them for any long stretch-whew! Many thousands of air conditioners run almost constantly, keeping Con Edison electric plants humming. This summer New Yorkers broke all records for the amount of electricity used in a single hour. But it's our job to anticipate your needs...
Mark Twain Tonight! The white-mustached, white-suited, cantankerous old hu' morist burns as pungently as his own stogie when Hal Holbrook brings him to life in a brilliant solo...
Brief In Quemoy, Judge Hu Tao-hui resigned under fire after he granted a divorce without hearing the husband's side, then later married the divorcee...