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...tugged at the faded blue baseball cap he wears in practice to cover his balding head. "They always say," murmured Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., "that a player is the last one to know when he's too old to play." At 36, the New York Giants' "Yat" Tittle is the oldest quarterback in the National Football League, and the odd cant of his ruddy nose is the talisman of a violent game that he can no longer remember. But nobody-least of all Quarterback-Tittle thinks that he is too ancient to play a young...
...year-old graduate of Annapolis began a tour of duty as a gunboat ensign in China during the Sun Yat-sen Revolution. Last week, 73, and seamed and toughened by the years, Retired Admiral Alan G. Kirk returned to duty in Asia as U.S. Ambassador to Nationalist China. A World War II hero who led invasion fleets against Sicily and Normandy, Kirk also proved himself an able diplomat as Ambassador to Moscow from 1949 to 1952. His selection for the post in Taipei ended a long search for a man who was respected by Administration officials, by outspoken supporters...
...rear admiral's flag, led invasion task forces at Sicily and Normandy, instituted the custom of broadcasting battle action to seamen below decks. His last professional contact with China was in 1911-14 as a gunboat ensign on the Asiatic Station during the Sun Yat-sen revolution. His last prolonged contact with the Kennedys was in 1939-1940, when Joseph Kennedy was Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and Kirk was his naval attache...
...attempt to demonstrate that today's news can best be understood in the perspective of history. With rare exception, its lavishly illustrated contents take the long view. An article on Red China, for example, traces the Communist conquest all the way back to Sun Yat-sen - a non-Communist revolutionary who toppled the 268-year Manchu dynasty in 1911. Caesar's Roman legions tramp through a lengthy examination of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. The antecedents of Samos. the U.S.'s TV spy satellite, are tracked back across 100 years, when a balloon...
...Shih, 70, presided at a cocktail party in honor of new Academia fellows. Suddenly, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. His death severed one of the notable links between his present-day, divided nation and the hopeful, revolutionary years of a half-century ago when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. Like his country, Hu Shih's own family was split: one son is on the Communist mainland, another in the U.S. For his many friends, Dr. Hu Shih's epitaph could be taken from one of his own poems...