Word: li
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Li Tsung-jen, 78, opportunistic Chinese general who fought with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces against both the Communists and the Japanese, was elected Vice President of the tottering Chinese Republic in 1948, and after serving briefly as President, exiled himself to the U.S. in 1949 before defecting to Communist China; after a long illness; in Peking...
...TECHNOLOGY. U.S. technological superiority means less than before. Lawrence Fox, a high official of the Commerce Department, observes that "foreigners today can either buy, lease or steal American research advances." Li censing of foreign manufacturers is rising. Last week, for example, B.F. Goodrich licensed Tokyo's Mitsubishi to use a vinyl-chloride chemical process, for which the Japanese firm will build a whole new plant...
Foremost in the Maoist junior league are the two daughters of Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the most strident voice in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Hsiao Li, in her late 20s, gained prominence a year ago when she led a Red Guard "investigation team" at Peking University. In the acid-tongued tradition of her mother, Hsiao Li described her alma mater as a "stale pond in which many wang-pa* grow." She is now chief of the editorial committee of the Liberation Army Daily, and the regime has confirmed her importance by listing her among "leading comrades...
...Father. Her younger sister, Li Min, has been on the revolutionary stage only since last summer. A member of the Science and Technological Commission, she co-authored a Red Guard wall poster denouncing Marshal Nieh Jung-chen, commonly thought to head China's nuclear program. His crime, in Li Min's book, was sheltering "renegades" and "capitalist-readers...
CHOPIN: ÉTUDES OPUSES 10 AND 25 (Deutsche Grammophon). Hungarian Pianist Tamas Vasary, 35, continues to build a formidable reputation as a Chopin specialist. This is his twelfth recording of the great Romantic composer, and he compares favorably with the late Dinu Li-patti, particularly in the slower etudes. Vasary seems to have absorbed Chopin's dreamy melancholy. He etches long, unhurried lines of somber melody, but when the music calls for it, he can be a rousing bravura player as well. Opuses 10 and 25 contain some of Chopin's most familiar writing, but in Vasary...