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...last week, the Red artillery barrage from the mainland just five miles away abruptly ended. On deserted Restoration Road in Quemoy City, the uneasy silence was pierced only by the cough of a diesel engine in the offices of the Cheng Ch'i Chung Hua Jih Pao (Righteous China Daily News), the island's only newspaper. All night long the engine had wheezed, supplying erratic power for the lights by which Chinese compositors handset four tabloid-size pages of type. The little engine rested briefly while a workman slipped the power take-off belt from the generator...
...Caroni looms Cerro Bolivar, blanketed with 500 million tons of high-grade ore. Farther west lies another iron mountain, El Trueno, endowed with 150 million tons. On the other side of the Caroni. Bethlehem Steel Corp. gathers up 3,000,000 tons of ore a year from El Pao. and barely dents the mountain's treasure...
...iron riches lay virtually untouched until 1950. when a Bethlehem Steel Corp. subsidiary began mining El Pao. The ore traveled by rail to the Orinoco, then by shallow-draft vessel to deep-water Puerto de Hierro (Iron Port). In early 1954, a U.S. Steel Corp. subsidiary, Orinoco Mining Co., sent its first load of Cerro Bolivar ore down the river. Orinoco Mining has spent $230 million on its Cerro Bolivar mine and the installations that go with it: a trim little company town near the base of the mountain; a river port (Puerto Ordaz); 90 miles of railroad...
...Suyin is an attractive Eurasian (Chinese and French) physician with a born flair for melodramatizing her life. In Destination Chungking (1942), it was her barely disguised experiences as a young girl whose pleasant existence in Peking was rudely shattered by war. Her husband, Chinese General Tang Pao Huang, was killed, but Elizabeth (her real name) made it to Hong Kong. There she had a passionate and publicly observed affair with British War Correspondent Mark Elliott, and having kissed, she proceeded to tell in A Many-Splendored Thing (TIME. Dec. 8, 1952"). When Elliott was killed in Korea. Han Suyin declared...
...China in 1949. Red leaders continued to wear their "liberation uniform"-dark trousers and jackets usually padded into shapelessness with cotton. Out of both prudence and necessity China's people followed suit, and women's clothes became almost indistinguishable from men's. Those who had chi pao (long gowns), like their slinky, slit-skirted sisters in Hong Kong and Singapore, put them out of sight...