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Emphasizing that he was wearing his orivate citizen's hat, Lanphier sandwiched in his remarks while acting as master of ceremonies at a squab and wild rice dinner hosted by Convair at San Diego's Kona Kai Club. He was "glad," he noted, that a Titan had finally fired successfully, but the Atlas "could fly as far, hit as accurately and carry as much weight as the Titan. The only difference is that the Atlas is 1½ years ahead and is doing it now." Backing up the Strategic Air Command's plea for an airborne...
...away with it? Some say his age saves him; others speak of a powerful friend. A mandarin trained before World War I at Yale and Columbia (he wrote a thesis on New York City municipal finances), Ma returned to China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power to save...
Frank got back to the jungle in time to fight a couple of spectacularly unconvincing battles, but pretty soon he was off to Allied headquarters, where he fought such a long-drawn-out legal engagement with Chiang Kai-shek and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that anybody who sees this picture may be forgiven a profound sigh of assent when one actor remarks: "You know, this war seems to go on forever...
...views coincide with the recommendations made earlier this month to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Conlon Associates Ltd. at the conclusion of a study requested by that committee. Of course I knew that Chiang Kai-shek was the most cherished of TIME'S sacred cows but, even so, the extent of your personal attack, distortions and inaccuracies surprised...
Reconciliation. No longer do Americans in India find themselves subjected to the special brand of Indian inquisition that used to feature a series of needling questions: Why does the U.S. back dictators like Chiang Kai-shek and Franco? Why does the U.S. arm Pakistan, India's obvious enemy? Why are Negroes oppressed in the South? Last month, when quietly competent U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker addressed the first session of the newly formed Indo-American Society in rambunctious, left-wing Calcutta (where Eisenhower was burned in effigy in 1956), he was astonished to find that it had already a thousand...