Word: kuan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fight the Whites. Leader of the victorious P.A.P.-and Prime Minister-elect -is fiery Secretary General Lee Kuan Yew, 36. A wealthy, golf-playing Singapore Chinese of the third generation, who gained a prized "double first" in law at Cambridge University, Lee campaigned in shirtsleeves to "restore the dignity" of Asians and to "fight against the white man." He saluted his election triumph as "the liberation of the poor." His party's first act, he said early in the campaign, would be to release the Communist-liners now in custody. He also demanded eventual closing of Britain...
...there was Chih Hang-his body considerably thinned, but firm and uncorrupted. Last week, in another shrine, guarded by stone lions and surrounded by Buddha figures, Chih sat for his gilding. Throngs of pilgrims came carrying incense sticks, bearing rice offerings, dropping coins in collection boxes. Meanwhile, Chen Lu-kuan, a goldsmith from Taipei, covered the body with a lacquered silk cloth and tenderly began to apply gilt with a brush...
...they insisted that he had been kidnaped by the rebels and spirited out of Lhasa "under duress." To back up the charge, Peking's embassy in New Delhi released three letters the Dalai Lama was supposed to have written to the acting Chinese representative in Tibet, General Tan Kuan-san. In each letter the Dalai Lama allegedly told "Dear Comrade, Political Commissar Tan" of the plots by a "reactionary clique" to foment trouble and even to take his life...
...four weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a lamasery. For, announced Burgess, his name is neither Rampa nor Kuan Suo but plain Cyril Henry Hoskin, and he is the son of a Devon plumber...
...Ghost. Hoskin had "gone Eastern" while working for a career-counseling firm in London. He shaved his head, grew a beard, changed his name and wrote a rhyme to his managing director: "You may wonder why I go on so But will you please remember I am Kuan Suo." When he was sacked some time later, he took to "spivving it" and writing occasional magazine articles. To Literary Agent Cyrus Brooks he brought a manuscript on corsets and such a high, wide and fancy load of Himalayan snow that...