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Formosa. Mace and Matador missiles, essentially defensive, but with a capability of reaching Red China across the strait...
...birthday in quiet seclusion. The still spry Gimo requested that there be no public celebrations, but 30,000 Formosans jammed into the Presidential Mansion grounds to sign traditional congratulatory scrolls; across the island there were youth rallies, mass choral concerts and, with an eye to the Reds across the strait, mass bayonet exercises. In lieu of birthday cake, all the guests at restaurants, public luncheons and dinner parties were served long, flat noodles, a Chinese symbol of longevity...
Across the Formosa Strait, meanwhile, a somewhat better-known woman figured prominently in the Nationalists' celebration of Double Ten Day, marking the Oct. 10, 1911. uprising against the Man-chus. At the offices of Taiwan Television Enterprise. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek pressed a control button with an elegantly gloved finger to inaugurate commercial television on the island. Formosa is starting out with 3,000 sets and four channels, a telling testimonial to the island's prosperity...
...flawed by her refusal to give proper names to her leading characters. As in a morality play, they are labeled the man, the woman, the father. Another seeming handicap is that the man proves to be a confirmed alcoholic who re-enacts the Lost Weekend gamut from DTs to strait jackets to the shameless cadging of money and sympathy...
Angrily he notes his escape (to an English school at age ten) from "the prison of my Indian boyhood . . . [that] strait-jacket of 19th century compensation fantasies" where "tokens of love, honour, courage" masqueraded "as rules instead of exceptions." Even years later, when he and his men are caught and tortured by the Japanese in Malaya, he counsels them, ''Hang on to your lives," wondering as he does so if he should have said "courage," then swiftly dismissing the thought with a snappish phrase: "But that is all fable." Stuffed Symbols. Despite this, Conway finds himself teased, almost...