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Tymitz said that the program would have been run on the Queen Elizabeth II, one of Tung's possessions, but it burned in Japan before it could be used. The Universe is less than half the Queen's size...
...program features a 567-foot ship, the S.S. Universe, which shipping magnate C. Y. Tung first rented at cost to Semester at Sea in 1971. While Tung died in 1982, his family continues to offer the Institute use of the ship...
...unit, a 153-man, three-service honor guard, moved out at a brisk 116 paces a minute, in the goose step that is traditional for military displays in Communist countries. Artillery pieces boomed out a 28-gun salute, a symbolic reminder of the 28 years it took Mao Tse-tung and his Communist armies to wrest the mainland from the control of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
...last week celebrated the 80th birthday of Deng Xiaoping, China's top leader, not with an official announcement but with one of the paper's most unusual articles in recent memory. The subject: Deng's ordeal as a political outcast during the decade of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. The author: "Mao Mao," the childhood nickname of one of Deng's three daughters. According to her account, three years after Deng was ousted from Deng Xiaoping Mao's inner circle in 1966 for being too critical of economic policies, he was exiled...
...bring along promising athletes. Among those trained at such schools is High Jumper Zhu Jianhua, 21, who took the bronze with a leap of 7 ft. 7 in. But perhaps most important, China decided it wanted to win. In place of the political sports slogan of the Mao Tse-tung era, "Friendship first, competition second," came a cross-court smash of a rallying cry: "Break out of Asia and advance on the world...