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War lord of Kwangsi province during the 1920s and '30s, Li early urged a united front of Nationalists and Communists to fight the invading Japanese war machine, gave the weary Chinese their first major victory at Taierh-chwang in 1938. In 1948, as the civil war raged, Li fought...
Ozawa, a thinker and tinkerer who designed such World War II bombers as the "Flying Dragon," contends that the world will soon have to adopt radical approaches to surmount the speed limits of conventional land transport. On a test track near Nagoya, he has built a miniature model of his...
At other times, his painting reflects a mercurial temperament tinged with bitterness. He aimed to please-to a point. He included in St. Anthony the patron who was to donate the work to the church. Drawing the line at flattering the man, Romanino portrayed him, standing at the foot of...
The launch was a solid success - a good, clean lift-off galvanized by 2.4 million Ibs. of thrust from twin solid-fuel boosters. The Titan IIIC resembled three huge bullet-nosed flashlights standing side by side. The 127-ft. center rocket was a souped-up version of the liquid-fueled...
He has, in fact, been relentlessly incredulous. As a crusading managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, he nosed out some of the gamiest scandals Chicago has spawned. In 1951, when a police officer named Michael Moretti was cleared by a grand jury for killing two unarmed youths in a...