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...Miao are among China's aboriginal tribes, have resisted admixture for thousands of years although they were nominally "conquered" by the Han Emperor, Wu Ti (B.C. 140-87). The Manchu Emperor Ch'ien Lung waged savage war against the Miao in the 18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people...
Tsuyee Pel. Recalled last fall from a Government mission to New York, where his doctor had discovered a tuberculous spot on one lung, energetic Tsuyee Pei refused to be invalided, instead became a capable governor of the Central Bank of China. Scrupulously honest and immensely clever, Pei has brought 30 years of experience to bear on his nearly hopeless task, has failed to stabilize China's currency but at least has put brakes...
Carson Chang's Rightist Social Democrats said perhaps. Dr. Lo Lung-chi's left-wing adherents were noncommittal. Back at the red house, the poll takers reported. The Generalissimo listened, then ordered a postponement-not for three weeks but three days. Unhappily, but feeling they could do nothing else, the five registered for the Assembly, cracked the united front of China's "third parties" against...
When in Chicago, he goes to night football games (his big lung is parked in a corner of the field and he looks on through his mirror). In Miami he is a constant spectator (and bettor) at jai alai games. His favorite sport: bridge, which he plays almost every night with his wife and friends. An expert, with a rating of three master points, he plans to compete in the national championships in Florida this winter...
...hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...