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...temporary" capital city of Taipei, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 73, last week was elected to his third six-year term as President of Nationalist China. Not a single vote had been cast against...
...traffic judge in Oakland, Calif, gave a three-day jail sentence (suspended) to Alan H. W. Chiang, 25, a grandson of Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, for revving his car up to 80 m.p.h. in a 65-m.p.h. zone. Not at all impressed by young Business School Student Chiang's influential background, the judge was most displeased at the State Department's efforts to save Chiang's face, and at Chiang's demand for a jury trial, duly granted, but made pointless by Chiang's plea amounting to no defense...
...away with it? Some say his age saves him; others speak of a powerful friend. A mandarin trained before World War I at Yale and Columbia (he wrote a thesis on New York City municipal finances), Ma returned to China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power to save...
Frank got back to the jungle in time to fight a couple of spectacularly unconvincing battles, but pretty soon he was off to Allied headquarters, where he fought such a long-drawn-out legal engagement with Chiang Kai-shek and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that anybody who sees this picture may be forgiven a profound sigh of assent when one actor remarks: "You know, this war seems to go on forever...
...woman do Americans most admire? For the twelfth year, according to Gallup pollsters, the answer is the same: Eleanor Roosevelt, 75, by her customary wide margin. The distinguished others, in the order of their mention: Mamie Eisenhower, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Patricia Nixon, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Singer Dinah Shore. Tied for tenth spot in the survey: Monaco's Princess Grace, Britain's Princess Margaret, India's Madame Pandit. Gallup pulse takers announced the results of their similar quest for the world...