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...hopes through some formula to achieve diplomatic ties with Peking without abandoning its commitments to Taiwan. But the issue will probably not be settled until both Mao Tse-tung, now 77, and Chiang Kaishek, 83, pass into history, along with their personal hatreds. Only then, in all likelihood, will an accommodation be possible. Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank suggests that the two governments might one day agree simultaneously to recognize Peking's "sovereignty" over the island and Taipei's "autonomy"-a device the British employed to engineer continued Chinese sovereignty over separatist Mongolia and Tibet after the fall...
Died. T.V. Soong, 77, former Chinese Nationalist official and member of the fabled Soong "dynasty"; of food lodged in his windpipe; in San Francisco. The Harvard-educated son of a Shanghai Bible publisher, and wealthy brother-in-law of both Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, Soong was called the Alexander Hamilton of China for making economic reforms as Chiang's young Minister of Finance. Soong later rallied the support of Shanghai bankers for the Generalissimo in his 1927 power struggle with the Communists. But during World War II Soong cooperated with Chou En-lai in forging a Nationalist...
...deal. Three women have made Woman of the Year [Sept. 7] in 45 years (Madame Chiang Kaishek, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II), all ridiculous choices. When you pass over females like Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Edith Green, etc., for nonproductive females whose contributions to society have been nil or destructive, it completely shows a typical male's lack of thought...
...beefy, swaggering, London-born raconteur and sometime Canadian ranch hand who served for several years as bodyguard to Chinese Republican Leader Sun Yatsen, became a general of the Kuomintang, and after the fall of the mainland in 1949 tried vainly to negotiate a reconciliation between Chairman Mao and Chiang Kaishek; in Salford, England...
...Philip, who made it once in his own right. Between them, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were reported in twelve cover stories (she in four and he in eight), but they too never appeared together. All told, only 14 couples have been featured together, led by Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, who were pictured twice. Jacqueline Kennedy was a solo cover subject as First Lady, and also with Husas First Lady, and also with Husbands John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. Some other famous pairs were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Luci Baines Johnson and Pat Nugent, and Lynn Fontanne with...