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...Brother, the Rock."A painter who was to have an equally great influence on succeeding generations was Mi Fei, the ideal exponent of the wen-jen hua, or Literary Man's Painting. He was a great art collector, caustic critic, expert on ink-stones and a lover of fantastically eroded rocks (his favorite, placed in his garden, he addressed as "my elder brother"). His calligraphy (see cut) is one of the most famous in Chinese art history, marked by bold, strong characters that broke with the florid, decorative manner of his predecessors. Despite his eccentric habit of dressing...
...Wen-Mac Corp.'s "Flying Platform" ($13.95), a tiny, gas-engine replica of the Navy's one-man Hiller Platform (TIME, April 18, 1955), takes off vertically and hovers...
...place else to go. More than 1,000,000 (no one really knows how many) have rolled across the Chinese border since the Reds began rising to power. They ask only freedom and often get little more ($1 a day is considered a good wage in Hong Kong). Recently Wen Ko, a cultured former government official from Hunan, was crushed to death by a truck-while shoveling dirt as an earth coolie. To keep the flow of immigration under control, Hong Kong put into effect last March a quota that, in effect, admits one Chinese for every one who returns...
...Shanghai's textile mills, heart of the city's industry, to cotton-growing areas. Last spring came an even stiffer edict. "It is absolutely necessary to reduce the population," decreed the city's Communist People's Congress. The reported goal: 50%. Explained the newspaper Sin Wen Daily: "Shanghai was abnormally developed ... for the benefit of imperialism, bureaucratic capital and feudalism...
...least three leading experts-Mathematician Hua Lo-keng, Geologist Li Ssukuang and Dr. Wong Wen-hao-voluntarily returned to the mainland from the West. Without a shot or a kidnaping, the Communists quickly recruited an invaluable braintrust: 233 topflight scientists and 691 second-stringers. Ironically, 35 of the 50 most talented were educated in the West, 25 in the U.S. Only eight of these leaders were known to have any pro-Communist leanings, and only three were party members...