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...school principal will discuss the problems and opportunities of teaching in his country with students interested in the Harvard "youth corps" project. He will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the Quincy House Junior Common Room. Under the sponsorship of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee for a Youth Service Project, Tai Solarin, principal of the Mayflower Secondary School, will attempt to provide "a clear picture of what joining the project will entail," according to Michael M. Hornblow '62, vice-chairman of the group...
...mention Deep Water Bay or Pokfuluam or Mount Kellett or Happy Valley, where the graves of honorable friends watch over race track, not to write of Tai Po or Sha Tin or Fan Ling, the golfers' paradise, is a crying shame...
Paper Palaces. When one of the "active" members of the tai Ian kun (The Club of the Most Critical Moment) is dying, a roast-pig dinner is laid before him, and Taoist priests chant prayers that he will be transported to heaven. Women fold silver joss papers that cost 40? a 1,000 but are thought to be worth 1,000 silver dollars in paradise. The average traveler to the next world gets about 10,-000 pieces of silver, a ricksha, a medium-sized house-all made of paper. The better off, who can pay $330 for a big funeral...
...that he had never seen or heard of the woman, Chan Kam, 53, who was suing him for maintenance and claiming they had been married for 26 years. The woman admitted that she had never before laid eyes on Wat. But Wat's sister-in-law, Yip Wan-tai, testified that before Wat's mother died in 1932, the mother had instructed her to marry Wat to Chan, then 28. The ceremony was duly carried out: the bride wore red, and Wat was represented, said Yip, by a rooster. No one ever told Wat about the wedding, said...
Last week, between swigs of a potent Chinese drink called mou-tai at a Moscow party for Red China's Chou Enlai, Khrushchev summed it all up: "As a Communist fighting for the interests of the working class, Stalin was a model Communist...