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Soundings. In the wake of the Quemoy-Matsu debate, Formosan officials even wore Nixon buttons on Election Day, and President Chiang Kai-shek drafted a congratulatory telegram for Nixon; next day, the officials talked with forced cheer about Kennedy's support of the Eisenhower position. Perhaps the most unblushing reaction came in South Viet Nam, where just before last week's coup, Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau showed newsmen a copy of Kennedy's book, The Strategy of Peace, flipped it open to page 63 and pointed to a passage he had underlined in red, calling...
...findings thus far show some interesting facts. Of the former football managers, for example, one is the Under Secretary of State, another the president of a leading aircraft corporation, another the president of one of the largest chemical companies, and still another the legal counsel to Chiang Kai-shek. It is much the same story for managers in other sports...
...other football managers whose present titles were listed above are Robert E. Gross '19, President and Director of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Stanley de Jongh Osborne '26, President, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, and William S. Youngman, Jr. '29, President, C. V. Starr & Company and legal counsel to Chiang Kai-shek. Osborne also managed track...
...Vice President. Kennedy insisted again that he shares Administration views that Quemoy-Matsu is a sore point with the U.S. Cried he, in the one moment of greatest heat: "I challenge you tonight to deny that the Administration has sent at least several missions to persuade Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal from these islands!" As Kennedy completed his sentence, viewers saw Dick Nixon speak, but heard nothing, for his microphone was off. "I'll do better," Nixon started to say. But then he was cut off by the moderator...
...fall of 1954, five years after the Chinese Communists seized the mainland, they first bombarded Quemoy. The resulting pressures on the U.S. from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek produced a Mutual Defense Treaty, committing the U.S. to aid in the defense of Formosa and the nearby Pescadores islands (see map). At President Eisenhower's behest, Congress in January 1955 passed the so-called Formosa Resolution authorizing the President to use American forces "as he deems necessary for the specific purpose of securing and protecting Formosa and the Pescadores against armed attack, this authority to include the securing and protection...