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...Chinese national psychology is far more important than any other factor in understanding the Chinese and other ethnic groups in Asia. China's perverted national psychology-anxiety to prove the myth of "center of the world," suspicion against the former "imperialists," and frustration at having been an underdog-cannot be easily understood or readily compensated for by those who have never had a similar experience...
Died. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 64, younger daughter of Britain's World War I Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, who inherited his passionate attachment to the underdog, serving in Parliament for 31 years, first as a reform-minded Liberal M.P. from North Wales, then in 1955 bolting her father's party, which she felt was too right-wing, to become a Labor M.P.; of cancer; in Criccieth, Wales...
...Baghdad went Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's No. 2 man, ostensibly to attend Aref's funeral but essentially to see that Nasser got what he wanted. Last week, with a nudge from the Egyptians, Iraq's Cabinet and top generals picked an underdog as Aref's successor. The new President: Abdel Rahman Aref, 50, the dead President's older brother and the acting chief of the armed services...
...first settlement of Captain Ar thur Phillip-redcoats and canary-yellow clad convicts-nearly starved to death. A relief ship came with food and news of the French Revolution Says Moorehead: "What did they make of the terror? Were the convicts delighted that the underdog was having its day? Did any of them pause to reflect that in France, the most sophisticated country on earth, one could watch the guillotine at work in the public streets with sadistic indifference, while here in New Holland the aborigine, the most primitive of all human beings, burst into tears when he watched...
...Michigan politician knows how to play the underdog better than Jerome Cavanagh, who as an obscure young lawyer in 1961 overcame opposition from both business and labor to become mayor of Detroit. "I won then," he said last week, "and I can win now." Thus Cavanagh, 37, announced that he would challenge one of the state's best-known Democrats, six-term former Governor G. Mennen Williams, 55, for the party's nomination as its U.S. Senate candidate in next August's primary...