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...Prince Philip, who made it once in his own right. Between them, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were reported in twelve cover stories (she in four and he in eight), but they too never appeared together. All told, only 14 couples have been featured together, led by Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, who were pictured twice. Jacqueline Kennedy was a solo cover subject as First Lady, and also with Husas First Lady, and also with Husbands John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. Some other famous pairs were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Luci Baines Johnson and Pat Nugent, and Lynn Fontanne...
...consult the Western White House after it was over. He told newsmen traveling with him that even though "it might take five years or more." all G.I.s in South Korea would be withdrawn when ROK forces were modernized. TAIWAN: Agnew's visit to 82-year-old Chiang Kai-shek was the closest thing to a courtesy call on his itinerary. The U.S. has only a military advisory mission in Taipei, and Agnew himself summed up Chiang's request for more modern jet planes even before he arrived in Taiwan. "I would guess," he said of Chiang, "he would...
...expansion around the world; of a skull fracture suffered in a fall in his home; in Arlington, Va. As a young missionary, Barnett traveled to China in 1910 to found a Y in Hangchow. His sincerity and austere brand of Christianity impressed China's emerging leaders, notably Chiang Kaishek. Returning home in 1937, Barnett presided over vast U.S. and world growth that by 1953 had brought the Y.M.C.A.s into 77 lands...
...must have a clear-cut attitude. We cannot play ball with both sides." When "Red Flag" radicals pledged to smash his Canton headquarters. Huang ordered his troops to open fire on the young fanatics, ignoring the fact that they were the particular darlings of Mao's wife Chiang Ching. Huang was summoned to Peking to confess his errors, but the following spring he was promoted to Chief of Staff...
...When Chiang Kai-shek's 80-year-old secretary visited the Ivory Coast, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny asked how a man of his age managed to appear to be fit and 50. It was easy, replied the secretary, for one who practiced the ancient Chinese sport of tai chi chuan, or shadowboxing. Houphouet-Boigny, 64, wasted no time in hiring a Taiwanese master named Kwang to teach him the sport's 108 movements. Kwang claims that his charge has not had a sick day since, and he adds, quickly hiding his spectacles, that the President...