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Within the next two weeks he spent several hundred thousand dollars for 2,127 items, including 250 pieces from the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644), 30 rare objects from the Sung period (A.D. 960-1279), more than 1,800 fine 18th and 19th century hand-woven silk carpets, many ivory, jade, bronze and wood figures, porcelain bowls. Some, but not all, were museum pieces...
...available ancient autos cost twice that, with the additional handicap that on the black market gasoline is $5 a gallon. Taken on tour of Hanoi's newly cleaned streets and decorated landmarks, Sukarno did not get to see Hanoi's most interesting place, the "bicycle market," where Ming vases and other heirlooms, sold by desperate families, go for less than more useful bicycles...
...Show. In Taoyuan, Formosa, when Yang Shih-ming's bride failed to appear for her wedding, Yang turned to Bridesmaid Chiang Ming-yeh. asked her if she would like to be his wife, married her instead...
...Chinese Communists used their advanced MIG-17 jets to strafe Nationalist Chinese craft trying to reinforce Quemoy. Said Nationalist Chief of General Staff "Tiger'' Wang Shu-ming, "I don't know how much longer we can practice restraint...
...group adjutant in Toungoo who threatened so many of his men with so many courts-martial that Boyington suspected "he must have been at least one jump ahead of a few himself in his military days." There was Chennault himself, who "thought his face was a piece of Ming-dynasty chinaware he was afraid might break if he were to show emotion of any kind...