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General Sun Li-jen, 55, has long been known as one of the ablest, bravest, as well as one of the most "Western-minded" leaders in the Chinese Nationalist high command. He learned his trade at Virginia Military Institute (class of '27) and practiced it heroically in smashing Japanese armies in Burma in World War II. Ordered to Formosa in 1946 to train new armies, he organized Chiang Kai-shek's forces for the liberation of the mainland and from 1950 to 1954 held the job of army commander in chief. Last week the Taipei government abruptly announced...
...National Red Cross Society of China invited Mrs. Addie Rigney, 77, of Chicago, to visit her son, the Rev. Harold W. Rigney, 54, onetime U.S. Air Force chaplain, postwar rector of Fu Jen University in Peking and a prisoner of the Chinese Reds since 1951. But Mrs. Rigney was refused a passport by the State Department, was told that the priest's problem was on the agenda of the Geneva Conference...
...professor of physics at the University of California; Dr. Hans Bethe, first to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions; Dr. Theodore von Kármán, who developed Jato, later served as chief scientific adviser to the Air Force; Massachusetts Institute of Technology's electricity wizard, Dr. Lan Jen...
Breast-stroker Dave Hawkins and the freshman 200-yard free-style relay team of Roger Clifton, Chouteau Dyer, Jen Lind, and Stu Ogden broke their own records Saturday night as the varsity swimmers swamped Princeton, 71 to 13, and the Yardlings downed Williston Academy...
...civil service examinations in 165 B.C., along the lines of a proposal Confucius had made two centuries before. As finally formalized, the system classed aspiring civil servants into three general types: the hsiu-ts'ai, or "budding genius," who could pass the basic district examination; the chii-jen, or "promoted man," who passed provincewide tests, and the chin-shih, or "achieved scholar," the man who passed an examination at the national capital...