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...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...clearly possesses the revolutionary purity and zeal that Mao values so highly. The son of a small factory owner in central China, the new No. 2 man attended Canton's famed Whampoa Military Academy, whose director was Chiang Kaishek. Young Lin, however, was apparently more influenced by one of his tutors, Chou Enlai. A colonel at 22 in the Kuomintang army, Lin defected to the Communists and later commanded the famed First Red Army group on the Long March to the shelter of Mao's redoubt in the remote caves of Yenan...
...Affairs on doctor's orders to take a long, relaxing sea voyage. He boarded the steamer Le Cambodge, and his destination was Japan. But, at Singapore, he left the ship, caught a plane to Hong Kong. Next thing anyone knew, he was in Canton, asking to see the Whampoa Military Academy, where he had an office...
...polemics, Ho set out for China under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc (roughly, "Smith the Patriot"), as agitator and translator for Stalin's agent Mikhail Borodin. Their mission: to penetrate the Kuomintang and train Communist can bo (cadres) to infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most of Ho's pupils quickly learned to do their homework, but teacher...
Seldom has Hong Kong's business been better. Big hotels such as the fustily genteel Peninsula and Repulse Bay are packed with tourists. The repair yards of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. hum with ships coming and going. Passengers crowd the Star Ferry Co. boats and the Peak Tramways' cable cars, which provide the most spectacular 10? rides in the world. China Light & Power Co. is adding four 60-megawatt turbines at a total cost of $34 million...