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...believes it ought to be taught, but it also provided some unexpected, and serious problems. In 1949, following his years working in the Office of War Information and as special assistant to the American ambassador in Chungking, Fairbank wrote in his alumni report, "During the last 20 years, while Chiang Kai-shek has been fighting Mao Tse-tung, I have been trying to read Chinese and by coordinating my activities with theirs in this way, I now find myself in a rising market for China specialists." Within two years, however, that market took a sharp nosedive when Rep. Patrick McCarran...
...gravity of the illness would leave people unwarned, to announce it was demoralizing. Most of us in the China business, I think, were over-optimistic and under-informed about the communists, the same as the American public in general; but, given our own distance and demobilization and the problems Chiang Kai-shek was engulfed in, I still doubt that we could have saved his situation, even if we had fought a major war in China. So I sympathize with my friends who have been kicked around as scapegoats...
...effluents--nah, it came out money. Money to travel. Money to write. Money to never have to worry about money again. And she loved him, in her insipid, lobotomized little way, or so they imagined. He went out to dinner with her parents--no take-out Chinese from those Chiang gang at the Hong Kong; shit man, these people were rich. They went out to Locke-Ober's, but Shapiro, to steel himself for the ordeal, had drunk too much bourbon. By the time the steak tartare had arrived he was green; rapturously ill, he tried to run--outside, bathroom...
...Chiang made it to the quarterfinals of this year's Ivy League tournament before bowing out. He teamed with Jim Dahlen, another future barrister, to get to the semifinal round in doubles play...
This year the team as a whole did not fare nearly as well as the trio of Magraw, Chiang and Dahlen, however, finishing near the bottom of the ten-team league. One reason for this poor showing, Masking says, is the lack of financial support the team receives from the Athletic Department...