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...onions shipped by parcel post were gobbled up at the fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack of food, and with it went her life savings. Edmund Locke, whose small farm-equipment agency nearly went on the rocks during last year's I.L.W.U. West Coast strike, gave up this time. "I'm busted," said Locke sadly...
...mutineers read Chiang's private diary; there, it appeared, Chiang showed as much determination to fight Japan as they had themselves. A consultation took place among the captors. Communist General Chou En-lai was invited over from the Red positions nearby. His instructions from Moscow: Chiang was to be returned to Nanking...
Swami Yogananda belongs outside the most publicized U.S. Indian movement-the Vedanta-which includes Huxley, Isherwood, et al. He is also scorned by them. Yogananda, born plain Mukunda Lai Ghosh 46 years ago, is the son of the vice president of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. Father Ghosh scorned money, food and sex, spent his free hours meditating, with his legs crossed. Both father & mother Ghosh were devout practitioners of the basic tenet of yoga: absolute discipline of the body and senses through concentration on the idea of union with God. "Your father and myself," said Mrs. Ghosh, "live together...
...project Todd last summer had won the cooperation of Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists. But last week the Communists were demanding a five-month postponement of further work on the river. In Yenan, Communist Spokesman Chou En-lai gave the official Communist reason: "It would destroy the lives and property of several million people" living in the path of the river's projected diversion. The Reds charged that resettlement of these millions had been delayed by the Nationalists' failure to make good a promised $15 billion CN ($4.5 million U.S.) relief payment to local Communist authorities...
...foreign colony straggled in. The General had invited them some time ago for afternoon movies and ice cream; he would not break this date even for affairs of state. Between meetings with the press and a long list of callers, including T. V. Soong and Chou En-lai's secretary, Chang Wen-chin, the General looked in on the moppets as they disposed of a gallon or so of vanilla. That evening he drove to the Gimo's again for family dinner...