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...bombardment that had so little military meaning that U.S. observers conclude it must have been aimed at U.S. voters on the eve of the congressional elections of Nov. 4. Red China announced its weird off-day ceasefire, also announced the replacement of Red Army Chief of Staff Su Yu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Classic Cold War Campaign | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...human imagination, which is capable of almost anything, even of riding on the back of a fish. His art also mirrors Taoist thought, which regards "everything as destroyed and everything as in completion . . . reaching security through chaos.'' Asked where he had got this idea, the sage Nu Yu replied: "I learned it from the Son of Ink. The Son of Ink learned it from the Grandson of Learning. The Grandson of Learning from Understanding, and Understanding from Insight . . ." Korin's art is insight direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lasting Stream | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Others in his government, notably Chief of the General Staff "Tiger" Wang and Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, counseled patience and restraint. The U.S. launched the Warsaw talks, and Chiang, who privately viewed the talks with undisguised distrust, agreed to wait until they had proved a success or had conclusively failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: To Win or to Lose? | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Last Angry Man. In Hong Kong, Yu Shui-ming, alias Pee Hai Por ("Leather Shoe Shop"), was asked by a judge to demonstrate how he earned his nickname, pulled off one of his shoes, flung it at the police officer who had arrested him for loitering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 30, 1958 | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...drive to broaden its base among the Taiwanese is also paying off in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 650,000-man military establishment-the only force in the free world engaged in a continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Broadening the Base | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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