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...Mandarin. Without these qualities ?and luck?Salan could not have survived the past 44 years. In that time he has fought against Germans, Lebanese, Nazis, Free French, Indo-Chinese Communists, Algerian Moslems and Frenchmen. The self-styled "centurion" was born in 1899 in the tiny Cevennes village of Roquecourbe but reared in the ancient sun-warmed city of Nimes in Provence. The Salan family was neither aristocratic nor military; his father Louis was a minor tax official and an ardent Socialist. His brother, Georges, two years younger than Raoul and now a physician in Nimes, remembers...
...served in French Indo-China as administrator of a corner of jungle near the borders of China, Burma and Laos. In the solitude of his post. Salan dabbled in Oriental philosophy and astrology, is said to have experimented with opium. These predilections won him the nickname of "the Mandarin." Like many French officers, he took an Indo-Chinese mistress, who bore...
...years in China. They are intelligent and patient scholars. Much of TIME's own Hong Kong study of China is the work of Loren Fessler, 38, who comes from Montana and Harvard, spent years in China before the Communists took over, and is fluent in Mandarin. His filing cabinets are full of data on Chinese politicians and economic statistics. After preparing thousands of words on Li Fu-chun, this week's cover subject, he was concerned to find Li's name lately dropping out of the press. Fessler last week was almost as elated as Chief Planner...
...Once in a while there are a few glints of true gold. ("What we do not do persists, classic and perfect, beneath what we do. The final admixture is the judgment.") But the total effect of Author Calisher's novel is like sipping gallons of weak, mandarin-style tea from a fur-lined...
...Pentagon for a conference with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Borrowing a presidential helicopter. Chen flew to Gettysburg for a short talk with Dwight Eisenhower, hurried back to lunch with Vice President Johnson and talk with Speaker Sam Rayburn on Capitol Hill, entertained Kennedy at an eight-course Mandarin dinner. Then he flew off to Manhattan, where he made a tour of Chinatown and met with U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. Heading home this week, after stops in Chicago and San Francisco, Chen would take with him a briefcase full of unresolved diplomatic problems. But thanks to John Kennedy's firm...