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None of the acupuncturists had any doubts as to the efficacy of their gold and silver needles, with which they claim to restore the cosmic equilibrium between the forces of yang (positive) and yin (negative). When a man has an ache or pain, either yang or yin is getting out of hand. Sometimes a gentle jab with the gold (yang) or silver (yin) needle will do the trick; often it takes a bit of both. Testimony from Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility...
...airport in Formosa, Barkeley is met by his interpreter, a seductive half-caste named Rita Lo-yang. Without hesitation, the agent makes a heavy play for Rita; though for all he knows her father is Mao Tsetung. Rita, however, takes no advantage of his importunity; she refuses to skip a meeting of the General Staff to have dinner with...
...found remnants of Peking man in a limestone cave at Choukoutien, sounded off in the Chinese Communist newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The Japanese had indeed captured the fossils, he said: they had been shipped to Tokyo, later seized by American forces and shipped to the U.S. Last week Dr. Yang Chien-kien, head of the Chinese Institute of Anthropology at Peking, joined the chorus. Americans, he said, had stolen one of the world's paleontological treasures...
...Shapiro is concerned, Drs. Pei and Yang are taking soundings, trying to goad American scientists into disclosing, if they know, the whereabouts of the fossils. But American scientists obviously do not know. The bones may have been destroyed by ignorant Japanese soldiers, may lie at the bottom of Tientsin harbor or may still be waiting discovery in some godown. There is also a chance that they were pulverized and eaten by Chinese peasants, since ground "dragon's bones" (fossils) have made strong medicine in China for centuries. In one form or another, the remains of Peking man are probably...
...visiting director of a London rubber firm, his plantation manager and nine policemen who were in his heavily guarded escort were ambushed and killed. Same day the Communists sabotaged the Singapore train 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur, killed five passengers and injured 20. Aboard the train was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, Malayan ruler of Negri Sembilan. Said His Highness: "It was a terrifying experience." Loyal Negri Sembilan Malays, hitherto neutral, began honing their parangs (long knives) for anti-Communist action. The planters, under a new British general, Sir Robert Lockhart, are punching hard at the Communists. British score (since...