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Like most storied Texans, James Joseph Ling, 38, does not spare expense when he wants something. Once he wanted to indulge his golfing hobby by bringing big-time professional golf matches to hometown Dallas. They failed miserably, lost $100,000. But he could well afford it. Since 1947 he has run an investment of $3,000 in an electrical contracting business into the $150-million-a-year Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc. and made himself a millionaire...
...mention Deep Water Bay or Pokfuluam or Mount Kellett or Happy Valley, where the graves of honorable friends watch over race track, not to write of Tai Po or Sha Tin or Fan Ling, the golfers' paradise, is a crying shame...
Like the creak of wheels on a horse-drawn cart or the dry wheeze of a hand-cranked auto engine, the familiar ring-a-ling of the telephone will soon be only an echo of the past. The telephone of the future will emit four staccato baritone beeps-and this week, in the homes of 300 residents of Morris, Ill., a farming center 75 miles southwest of Chicago, the beep of tomorrow could already be heard. Using Morris as a pilot project, Bell Telephone Laboratories have installed telephones that...
From all over the countryside they descended on Peking last week-swarms of muscular women in tight pigtails, laborers' boots and identical blue boiler suits. The glorious revolution, said Madame Soong Ching-ling, U.S.-educated* widow of Sun Yat-sen and now People's Vice Chairman, had brought about a great change in Chinese "esthetic views . . . The fragile, slender and sentimental girls, whom the exploiting classes regarded as pretty, are ugly and degenerate to the working people." Banners flaunted high, red-and-gold streamers clutched in their hands, the emancipated women of Red China cried back their full...
...China the government chairmanship has been vacant since Mao Tse-tung stepped down in December (while hanging on to his all-powerful chairmanship of the party). In the rumor mills of Hong Kong the favored candidate to succeed him is Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), 68-year-old widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, and sister of Madame Chiang Kaishek. Though not a member of the Communist Party, Madame Soong has often been trotted out to endorse Red policies. Long regarded by many an overseas Chinese as a cultured, sincere woman, she is both admired...