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...threat is from land, sea and air-approaches the ideal in rock-like anti-Communist strength. The crack, U.S.-trained Nationalist air force is, for its particular mission, as good as any in the world. The U.S. could move air support swiftly into Formosa's big, excellent airfields. Chiang Kai-shek's 450,000-man army has been pared down and streamlined. And the 32,000-man navy is constantly drilling and redrilling in methods of supplying Quemoy and Matsu...
...events-ever since 1927, when the first choice was Charles A. Lindbergh. At times, the Man of the Year has been a symbolic figure (the American fighting man in Korea, 1950; the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 1956), a woman (Queen Elizabeth, 1952), or even a couple (Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, 1937). This year tradition takes a new twist: for the first time, the cover belongs to the Men of the Year-15 brilliant Americans, exemplars of the scientists who are remaking man's world...
...celebrate the paper victory, China's Chairman Liu Shao Chi took off on a stately processional round the Soviet Union in company with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. At a "friendship" rally in Moscow, Brezhnev promised that "the day is not far off when the stinking corpse of Chiang Kai-shek will no longer poison the atmosphere...
...frequently proposed alternative, re-admission of the Chiang delegation as the Republic of Taiwan, would have similarly disastrous effects, according to Lattimore...
Establishment of a Republic of Taiwan would imply assumption of power by the native party, Lattimore noted. In answer to a suggestion that America "declare a plague on both Peiping and Chiang" he maintained that dropping Chiang, even though expedient, would completely destroy the faith of other Asian countries...