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Died. Yen Hsi-shan, 77. governor of China's arid Shansi province much of the time between 1912 and 1949, who, in the defeat that sent Chiang Kai-shek's government to Formosan exile in 1949, served as Nationalist China's last mainland Pre mier; of a heart attack; in Taipei...
...road is the pet project of the Generalissimo's eldest son. Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo. As head of the Vocational Assistance Commission for retired servicemen, he conceived the road as a way to provide useful work for the growing number of aging veterans of the 400,000-man Nationalist army. Last week many an old soldier was staying behind to take work in logging camps or else settle down on a little mountainside farm with a Formosan-born wife. The road is also expected to boost Formosa as a tourist attraction. A new 60-room hotel has been...
...Nationalist China capital of Taipei, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek unveiled a bronze bust of China's good friend and defender, Lieut. General Claire Chennault, the original Flying Tiger, dead since 1958. The likeness, catching the essence of Chennault's leathery, steel-spined courage, is in a children's playground and faces Chiang's official mansion. Cabled the President of the U.S.: "While his mortal remains lie among those of America's soldiers of all wars [in Arlington National Cemetery], his spirit is memorialized today in Free China...
...Chiang in the National Assembly by the time the total reached the 789 required for election on the first ballot...
Still unresolved is the identity of Chiang's eventual successor. Few observers think that it will be either of the President's adult sons: Soviet-educated Chiang Ching-kuo, 54, or German-trained Chiang Wei-kuo, 44. who (see cut) was photographed last week like someone marching in a royal entourage, three steps to his strolling father's rear. More likely choice: tiny, tough Vice President Chen Cheng. 63, onetime Governor of Formosa, who along with Chiang was effortlessly re-elected last week...