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...temporary" capital city of Taipei, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 73, last week was elected to his third six-year term as President of Nationalist China. Not a single vote had been cast against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Third Term | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

Sound Training. In Taipei, Formosa, a district court sentenced Shen Lin-hsiang, 42, to 2½ years in jail for biting off part of her stepdaughter's ear to teach the girl "her place in the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1960 | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Taipei to celebrate his 72nd birthday after an inspection trip of Quemoy, Nationalist China's President Chiang Kai-shek vetoed all hoopla because of recent floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...delegates to the annual regional conference of the World Health Organization in Formosa last week, a must on the agenda was a side trip to a cluster of laboratories in Taipei. The labs are the headquarters of a far-ranging, little-publicized U.S. Navy unit known as Namru-2 (for Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2). What the delegates saw of Namru-2's work was so impressive that they later passed a resolution to accept the unit's standing offer of emergency help in epidemics among Asia's civilian population. As most of the delegates well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medics for the Millions | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Reopen the Case. In Taipei, Formosa, Suspected Thief Lin Chao-chin protested his innocence until he was caught pilfering a pack of cigarettes from a policeman's desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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