Word: hui
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried a low, curving shell set with 133 ceiling lights (see color); for Shizuoka, he designed a hyperbolic paraboloid auditorium that holds an audience of 5,000. His Tokyo City Hall this year received the first International Grand Prix awarded by France's Architecture d'Aujourd'hui...
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...
CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...
Died. Wang Chung-hui, 77, jurist, statesman, first Foreign Affairs Minister of the Chinese Nationalist Republic, onetime judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, World War II Secretary-General of China's Supreme National Defense Council, onetime Chief Justice (appointed 1920) of the Supreme Court of China; after long illness; in Taipei, Formosa. Born in Canton, educated at Peiyang University, Yale University and in Europe, ubiquitous Scholar Wang was author of the standard English translation of the German Civil Code, onetime co-editor of the Journal of the American Bar Association, pen behind the Yueh...
Last week the peasants were being asked to believe a startling promise. By the fall of 1961, says Vice Premier Teng Tzu-hui, the lower reaches of the world's siltiest river will indeed run crystal-clear. Red China has decided to take on the proud and tempestuous Yellow...