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...those years, Chiang took to wife the beautiful Mei-ling of the famed Soong sisters (one sister was the widow of Sun Yatsen, another the wife of Financier H. H. Kung, longtime member of Chiang's Cabinet). Chiang was a revolutionist of unity, not upset. His mission was to weld a nation out of many pieces, not to overthrow a monolithic government in the name of individual liberty. Dr. Sun Yat-sen used to argue that, unlike Europe, China had not too little but too much liberty without organization, "and we have become a heap of sand." What...
Language Game. Ling-Whist, a card game that will teach players 300 words of either French or Spanish, has been put on the market by Manhattan's Games of the Month, Inc. Each card in the 120-card deck contains a letter of the alphabet, its phonetic pronounciation and point value. Object: build the cards into one of the 100 sentences or expressions shown in an instruction book. Price...
Egypt's pudgy ex-King Farouk, never a man to conceal his liking for girls, was busy beating down one of the most start ling rumors about himself to arise since his dethronement and divorce. The hot word: he plans on marrying his current traveling companion, a voluptuous Nea politan named Irma Capece Minutolo, 20, whose right to be called a marchioness was recently disputed when two Italian newsmen declared that her parents were a chauffeur and a janitor's daughter. At the newsmen's trial for slander, Irma's father had indignantly complained: "To doubt...
...growing stronger in the Diet; Yoshida's conservative Liberal Party is not big enough for a majority alone. Seven weeks ago Yoshida brought the Progressive Party (a conservative splinter group) back into line on rearmament. Then the Fox turned to a group of conservatives headed by a:ling Ichiro Hatoyama, who once presided over the party Yoshida now runs...
...should throw off all tariffs, Europeans would have to sweat to close the trade gap with the U.S. Their production methods are still too costly, their plants too antiquated. Europe's form of capitalism, with its emphasis on low wages, is hobbled by production-control ling, price-fixing cartels. European management would have to learn that higher wages and better working conditions breed greater productivity; European labor would have to learn to work harder...