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...York, for further study at Columbia. On the side he clerked for the National City Bank, then suddenly chucked it all for a business career in China. He was 29, a middling success as a coal-&-iron merchant, a young family man married to a former missionary-school belle, Lu-Yee Chang, when history knocked at his door again. As usual, history had the face of Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...Everywhere on stone walls and cliffsides appears the four-syllable slogan coined by the government's able chief, Mao Tze-tung: "Move your own hands!" Meaning: "He who does not work shall not eat." A Border Region epithet is the term erh-lu-tze - loafer (literally, "she-donkey"). Communists say they once counted 70,000 loafers, that now there are only a few hundred. These diehards must wear a big white erh-lü-tze badge, are fair game for anyone's hoots and jeers. But this year an official thought up a subtler approach...
Tall, cheerful, benign, the son of a poor man who died soon after he was born, Confucius (551-478 B.C.) married at 19, fathered a son and two daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew...
...materials, it limped along until 1825, when upholstered, ambitious, 3O-year-old Rebecca Lukens inherited the business, became the first big-time U.S. female executive (see cut). Rebecca read steel cost sheets by sunlight and Shakespeare by candlelight, in 22 years won fame & fortune for herself and Lu kens. When she died in 1847, the business went to Son-in-law Dr. Charles Huston, whose descendants still own 37% of the company...
...increase in the alcohol yield of grains can be had by using bread molds instead of the conventional malt* to convert starches to sugars, which are then fermented by yeasts. So reported Leland A. Underkofler, Ellis I. Fulmer and Lu Cheng Hao of Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol...