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Ghostly Organizer. The reincarnation of the Guards in their present form came in mid-June. A pilot group was organized at Tsinghua University's middle school in Peking. The organizer and initial commander of the Guards was Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, and he loosed his youthful minions in public for the first time at an August 18 pep rally for the cultural revolution in Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. Standing on both sides of the reviewing platform, the Guards, mostly in their late teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms...
...Yang, 34, was born in Hofei in Anhwei province, the son of a mathematician now teaching in Shanghai. He moved to Kunming when the Japanese invaded the north, and got his master's degree from National Tsinghua University. In 1945 he came to the U.S. (on a Tsinghua scholarship) and got his doctorate in 1948 at the University of Chicago. Since 1949 Dr. Yang has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where his office has a single decoration, a small picture of Einstein...
...Yenching's Louis E. Wolferz, 65, who went to Peking in 1911, helped open the Tsinghua University, in 1917 joined the Yenching faculty as professor of Western languages. His new assignment: Earlham College in Richmond...
...hard for him. I was different however, I didn't want jobs or political training. I wanted to re-enter college. I dashed about getting examined for college and I applied to Peking University. My surprise--I was immediately admitted. But by now I was already convinced that Tsinghua would be better for me. I didn't know what to do. Upon returning home (my father was very happy that I came home) I discovered that I was admitted, to the second year as a "borrowed student...
...background volunteer for various officer training schools (army, navy, air force). In the request it was emphasized that it must be completely voluntary. In subsequent articles and speech it was repeatedly emphasized that no pressure of any sort must be exerted on anyone to volunteer. With all this, in Tsinghua University (2500 students) over 1000 students decided to volunteer...