Word: chiangs
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...nation tour of Asia as the personal emissary of President John F. Kennedy. Earlier in the week, Johnson had had his problems in the Philippines, where President Carlos Garcia made no secret of his dismay at the soft stand of the U.S. in Laos. In Taipei, Johnson reassured Chiang Kai-shek that the U.S. has no intention of recognizing Red China, intends to stand faithfully behind its commitment to defend Formosa...
...first stop, Thailand, where the 59-year-old Indonesian's hobbies are by now well known, the King and Queen whisked him off to languid Chiang Mai, where 300 maidens danced prettily for the visitor. When ex-Beauty Queen Rajadaporn Srivichai proffered an orchid, Sukarno gallantly reciprocated with his own silk handkerchief. "You should enter the Miss Universe beauty contest," he told...
...used to grow mustaches when they found their Kraft ebbing. British soldiers during the Crimean War gained a fearsome respect for their fearsomely foliaged Turkish allies, and many of those who survived proudly bore a bristle back home. Such pubigerous leaders as Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Stalin, De Gaulle and Chiang Kai-shek maintained the military tradition of the brush-style upper...
...Born. To Chiang Hsiao-wen, 25, Chiang Kai-shek's eldest grandson who is in the export-import business in Taipei, and Nancy Chiang, 22, granddaughter of onetime Gimo comrade in arms: their first child, a daughter, and first great-grandchild of 73-year-old Chiang; in Taipei...
...constantly put in the position of having to support a no-good general in Laos or a 1920's militarist like Chiang Kai-Shek," a noted historian claimed yesterday, describing the dilemma of U.S. policy toward shaky strong-man governments in the Far East...