Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being inevitable. Recently, Formosa's dismay over U.S. diplomacy rose to such a degree that Ambassador Everett Drumright was summoned home for consultation. At his advice, the White House arranged for last week's state visit by Chen, 63, the official heir apparent to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...Hearst as he and his pals prowled the global beat, collecting heads of state as other hunters collect heads. In the six years since then, the list has grown: Churchill twice ("He and Pop were very good friends"), Macmillan, Nehru, Japan's Hirohito and China's Chiang Kaishek, Israel's Ben-Gurion and the United Arab Republic's Nasser ("Did Nasser and Ben-Gurion at the same time"). Khrushchev has been such a regular subject for interviews that the Soviet Premier now regards Hearst as "my capitalist-monopolist friend." Hearst is moved to reciprocate...
...Vice President pointedly urged U.S. diplomats to get out of their "air-conditioned comfort" and meet the people. Throughout his homecoming week, in private conversations with senatorial friends, Johnson zealously talked up his serious new concern for Asian problems, had high praise for Nationalist China's Chiang Kaishek, Thailand's tough Premier Sarit Thanarat...
...Cuba's press stood in chains fresh-forged by Fidel Castro. On Formosa, Newspaper Publisher Lei Chen was imprisoned for daring to be critically independent of Chiang Kaishek. Indonesia's President Sukarno commanded editors to swear allegiance to his regime ("Our publication is duty-bound to support guided democracy") or lose their licenses...
...events-ever since 1927, when the first choice was Charles A. Lindbergh. At times, the Man of the Year has been a symbolic figure (the American fighting man in Korea, 1950; the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 1956), a woman (Queen Elizabeth, 1952), or even a couple (Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, 1937). This year tradition takes a new twist: for the first time, the cover belongs to the Men of the Year-15 brilliant Americans, exemplars of the scientists who are remaking man's world...