Word: shan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence on which the committee based its conclusion was contained in a report to the MIT faculty issued that same month. The report states the 15 trainees were employees of the Chung Shan Institute which deals primarily in military research, and that 12 of them graduated from military academies...
...advertised job openings at the Chung Shan Institute, the committee reported in May, at least 20 were for missile experts and one of the advertisements identified the employer as the Chung Shan Institute of the Taiwan Ministry of Defense...
...island saw an average of 15 movies. Seven production companies with 20 sound stages turn out 120 films a year, mainly teenage tearjerkers, but occasional quality flicks too. A Touch of Zen, by renowned Director King Hu, won the Cannes Film Festival top prize in 1975 for technique. Ting Shan-Hsi, winner of the Asia Film Festival Best Director award, has just completed a $2.5 million epic called 800 Heroes, using a cast of 50,000 troops, 30 navy vessels and 50 refitted air force planes. Ting had a problem: protecting his players. Thirty had to be hospitalized because real...
...engineers come from the Chung Shan Research Institute of Science and Technology, a lab supported by grants from the Ministry of Defense. When the program ends in December the engineers will return to Chung Shan...
...time Mostert has evoked this world-as graphically as Conrad presents the Sturm und Drang facing the captain of the steamer Nan-Shan in Typhoon-the reader, stuffed with sea lore, has been shanghaied aboard a ghostly voyage from the demanding past into the threatening future. Ardshiel has bicycles-for exercising on deck-but no ship pets, because. Mostert suggests, there is no crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers...