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...LADY WU by Lin Yutang. 255 pages. Putnam...
Climatized Clients. In Hong Kong, where air-conditioning sales this year will surpass $6,500,000, Engineer James Wu, 43, last week worked on a $2,500,000 third plant for his growing air-conditioner manufacturing business, the biggest in Asia. Wu's China Cold Storage & Engineering Co. turns out Weatherite air conditioners under license from the U.S.'s Westinghouse. His is a rare operation; nearly 90% of the equipment sold in Southeast Asia is imported from the U.S., where Carrier, Fedders, General Electric, Admiral and York have created a profitable market by shipping domestic units with...
...Quincy House the next morning some seminar members are eating breakfast, and the topic of conversation is the same. "Herman Kahn does not want war. These people who call a man a war-monger merely because he is willing to face reality..." General Wu of Nationalist China searches for the words to describe such people, fails, concludes impatiently, "Childish, absolutely childish...
...declared Khrushchev, no longer made "the conclusion of a peace treaty the same problem as it was before Aug. 13." Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet split...
Khrushchev did not so much as glance at Wu when, gesticulating, he demanded that the Red Chinese cool their "red-hot tempers," cease sneering at Moscow for its policy of coexistence with the West. Again he repeated his warning that the "imperialists" are no "paper tigers." The U.S., Nikita informed his gasping audience, has 40,000 atomic or nuclear warheads.† This, he cried, is more than enough. "During the first blow, 700-800 million people would die," cried the Russian Premier. "Dear Comrades, I'll tell you a secret. Our scientists have developed a 100-megaton bomb...