Word: wu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Teng and his supporters. In some posters last week, though, the riots were hailed as "a brilliant page in the history of the Chinese Revolution." The real culprits, the posters declared, were the people who forcibly put down the April demonstrations. These included the present mayor of Peking, Wu Teh, a close associate of Hua's. Said one poster in T'ien An Men Square: THE CAPITAL'S 8 MILLION PEOPLE DO NOT TRUST WU...
Other less political charges against Chiang Ch'ing were calculated to shock the puritanical and egalitarian People's Republic. Madame Mao's personal life was said to be like that of the 7th century Empress Wu, notorious for her extravagance and lubricity. Accordingly, Chiang Ch'ing ordered every insect killed and every leaf dusted by her minions before she would venture to visit a Canton botanical garden. During bouts of insomnia, the imperious lady issued orders that work at a nearby noisy shipbuilding factory be stopped. So sensitive was she to noise that she once ordered...
...military uniform, as were almost one-third of the other officials on the reviewing stand-a clear sign of the army's importance as the guarantor of the new leadership. Hua did not speak during the coronation-type ceremony, leaving the keynote task to Peking's mayor, Wu Teh, who assured the crowd that the new Chairman had the blessing of the old. "With you in charge, I'm at ease," Mao is said to have told...
...CHUEN WU, 23, who bought an interest in a Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto and now works twelve hours a day to support his widowed mother and younger brother: "Since I am in America, I have time only for work, just go home and watch TV, then go to sleep. I am too tired to read newspaper. I have no time to meet girls. I do everything. I clean the floor, the windows. I do the kitchen work. I wait on tables. But it is O.K. In Hong Kong I never get a chance to save money and become...
...following people have been elected to one-year terms as student directors of the Harvard Cooperative Society: Robert A. Wasson, MIT; Charles F. Wu '79; Marvin N. Bagwell '76; Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, Harvard Business School; Cindy Raynor '78; Darcy Bradbury '78; Elisa A. Botta '78; Douglas C. Knott, MIT; Cynthia E. Cole. MIT; Max Donath, MIT; George A. Mabry, Harvard Business School...