Word: kai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies, but he soon found that the more peaceable job of chauffeur for the French government in Saigon gave him more time to indulge his hobby of smuggling contraband and opium. At the outbreak of World War II, he deserted the French and sold his talents...
...Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport the day before Christmas, a bundled-up Negro stepped off a night plane from Tokyo, drove to Kowloon railroad station and boarded a train for the 22-mile trip to Lo Wu on the China border. There, in defiance of the State Department's refusal to give U.S. newsmen passports to Red China (TIME, Sept. 3), William Worthy Jr., 36, special correspondent for Baltimore's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, crossed the border, became the first American reporter to enter China in seven years...
...Murrow only if questions were submitted in advance, then arrived at his Rangoon rendezvous with Murrow and camera crew willing to answer only ten of them. (Among the many subjects he declined to discuss: U.S. prisoners in China, Titoism, Peking's offer of a governmental post to Chiang Kai-shek.) Murrow & Co., and viewers as well, were fortunate that Chou did not answer more. He sat, solemn, humorless and tired-looking, acting like a man who was far from being his own master. Though he understands English well, Chou insisted on reading his answers in mechanical Chinese...
JANUARY. Parietal hours will be reduced by the Administrative Board. They will explain, "These are hectic times." Chiang Kai-shek will accept the position of Recreation Director with the Chinese People's Republic. Tom Dewey will refuse to comment upon his future plans while his wife paints campaign buttons and he brings his golf game down to the eighties...
...wrong for the free nations of the world to recognize Chiang Kai-shek's government? A: "Surely, you don't expect me to be rude to anybody...