Word: ling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even Red China's peripatetic Premier Chou Enlai. As Chou's road show pulled into Colombo last week, it was clear that he had taken advance precautions to ease his confrontation with the formidable first lady. Included in his entourage for the first time was Soong Ching-ling, widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of modern China, and sister of Mme. Chiang Kaishek. A rheumatic lady of 74, Soong Ching-ling fell out with her family during China's civil war, stayed on the mainland after the Communist takeover, won a Stalin Peace Prize...
WHEN the Navy in 1960 canceled a $450 million contract for Corvus Air-to-Ground missiles, Prime Contractor James J. Ling pondered his loss for a few minutes, then said, "Well, let's get back to work." Last week Ling's Dallas-based Ling-Temco-Vought was picked to design and build a Navy light attack plane under a contract that may total $2 billion. "Well," said Chairman Ling again, "let's get back to work." Single-mindedness, along with a seasoned chess player's ability to plot moves and perceive alternatives, has brought Ling...
When it isn't lost in a silly maze of plottage, Gypsy bursts into songs that are tonic and tuneful, most notably Ting-A-Ling Dearie. What Besoyan should have done was junk the show and release the cast recording...
Died. Rene Robert Bouche, 57, brilliant Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover artist (Jean Kerr, Sophia Loren, John F. and Edward Kennedy); of a heart attack; in Ling-field, England. A slight, wiry, cosmopolite (Czech-born, to a French father, Hungarian mother), Bouche studied in Munich and Paris, went through "all the isms-expressionism, surrealism, nonobjectivism"-before settling in New York in 1941 to find his real calling: chronicling "the quintessential people of our time" from Arp to Zeckendorf, and producing a gallery always elegant and sometimes profound-as when he painted Elsa Maxwell as a Velasquez court dwarf...
Post has also begun to dabble outside insurance with great success. With James Ling, boss of Ling-Temco-Vought, he is building a 31-story skyscraper in Dallas. A Post mutual fund called Life Insurance Stock Fund, with a portfolio of life insurance shares, last year increased its value per share from $5.99 to $13.01, for the best gain of any U.S. mutual fund. (Current value per share...