Word: huang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was a far cry from the days when Indonesia was one of the first countries in the world to recognize Red China. By last week the Times of Indonesia was demanding the expulsion of Red China's Ambassador Huang Chen. Radio Peking had its own pat explanation of what had gone wrong: "Some time ago, the U.S. sent a special agent pretending to be a scientist to Indonesia to fan up an anti-China campaign . . ." But the truth was that if Mao and Chen Yi and Ambassador Huang were themselves U.S. secret agents, they could hardly have done...
...than myth in ancient snakeroot remedies for high blood pressure and some emotional disturbances, pointed the way to the isolation of reserpine-now flourishing as a multimillion-dollar prescription item. Ephedrine, which was isolated only in 1885, and is valuable in treating asthma, was the active ingredient in Ma Huang, a herbal drug the Chinese had been using for 5,000 years...
...Chinese artillery, which has lobbed 575,000 shells into Quemoy since August, has posed nightmare problems to Director Tsao Yi-fan, 48, and Editor Huang Pang-fu, 35. Three months ago Cheng Ch'i's two-story headquarters in downtown Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite...
Five years ago Huang began teaching a distinguished pupil, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. For her, Huang prescribed the classical program, began with trees, then rocks. After two years she had mastered the basic strokes and was ready for color, now specializes in painting bamboo and pines. "She has made great progress." beams Huang. "Her strokes are very forceful, even stronger than...
...celebrate his first trip to the U.S., Huang insisted on being driven directly from Los Angeles to Yosemite National Park. Once there, he leaped from the car and began a watercolor on the spot (see cut). How does the scenery compare with his beloved Kialing River? Replies Huang: "The landscape is not too different. But American trees are too uniform; Chinese trees are more interesting. What I missed most was the mist." For Huang this presented no insuperable problem. He simply left blank areas of rice paper to indicate the mist, in one view added two Chinese fishermen...