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...funneled $2.7 billion in military aid to Chiang's government in Taipei, plus some $1.5 billion in economic assistance. A land-reform program has more than doubled farm productivity, while more and more of the nation's resources have been harnessed to industry. Formosa today boasts the Orient's second highest standard of living (after Japan), though three-fourths of its national budget goes for defense. Since 1960, more than $42 million in foreign investment has been pumped into the island, whose skilled, low-wage labor force has attracted several dozen U.S. companies from Westinghouse to Winchester...
Some officials suggest that Japan may use her unique understanding of both Oriental and Occidental temperaments to mediate between East and West. In the future, the Japanese diplomatic corps may be used as a "bridge" for communication as well as support. Japan stands as a link between East and West in a dual sense-first, between communist and free countries and, second, between Occident and Orient. For the Japanese, China and its people are neighbors with whom historical, ethnic and cultural ties have existed for more than ten centuries. Drawing on this historical background and her growing economic power, Japan...
...after losing the key to her bedroom in a dice game. At 18, she was the mistress of a Russian prince and two years later made it to Paris, where she became a Spanish dancer in a four-star restaurant in the Palais Royal. Sighed one admirer: "All the Orient was in her hips...
...yang are the thesis and antithesis of the monistic cosmology of the Orient; you might call it a polarizable dialectic monism. Everything in the world is yin and yang. The principle of yin-yang applied to biology becomes the art of longevity and rejuvenation in Far-Eastern medicine. Disease is proof of the violation of universal order expressed through the neglect of the body...
...drain, Brown is convinced, but also prove a magnet in its own right. Says he: "We cannot rival the Metropolitan in the Met's terms now. No one is taking whole carloads of treasures out of Egypt any more. But our museum can look to the Orient and to Latin American art easier and quicker just because of geography." He intends building on the present splendors to produce a top-grade total museum. "Doing it becomes an obligation," says he. "The new museum will become what all truly great museums are: an instrument with which a community...