Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the ceasefire, these weaknesses have been accentuated by plunging morale. An inflation rate of 65% in 1973 and 40% in 1974 reduced the soldier's real pay even further...
...future "reconstruction." He titled it China's Destiny, but Chiang might have called it My Destiny. He saw little distinction between his own fate and that of the giant, sprawling, poverty-stricken land that he ruled for just over 20 years. All his life, the lean and ambitious soldier fought bravely, though in the end vainly, to shape history to his personal specifications. When he died of a heart attack last week at the age of 87 in his exile capital of Taipei, he was still clinging to the sacred fiction that it was he and nobody else...
Born the son of a small-town salt merchant in Chekiang province on China's central coast, Chiang trained as a soldier, spoke like a revolutionary, and seemed destined for power. His climb began with an introduction, through a friend, to Sun Yatsen, the zealous revolutionary whose nationalistic movement brought down the already doddering Manchu empire in 1911. Cadet Chiang, a 24-year-old student at a military school in Japan, rushed home to join Sun's fledgling revolution. Chiang rose steadily through the military ranks of Sun's Canton-based Kuomintang (Nationalist Party...
Harvard's varsity baseball team has captured the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball championship in each of the last four years, but yesterday at Soldier's Field it was the Quakers of Pennsylvania who established themselves as the team to best in this year's title race...
Arms and the Man. Shaw hits the Mainstage again, in one of his classic intellectual comedies about a Bulgarian nobleman who writes an operetta called The Chocolate Soldier because he loads his revolver with chocolate. Shaw outraged public opinion with this play by revealing that Bulgarians of high social position did not bathe. The director is the very accomplished Evangline Morphos, but the Mainstage's penchant for competent, unexciting productions of good but not great plays will probably not be reversed. Tonight through Sunday at 8 p.m. as well as next week...