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...rayon fiber, paid him off with a shipload of soybeans, which he sold in Antwerp. Later Gentili was made the sole Italian agent for China's majoif trading company, and Muratori was dispatched to Peking to operate as Gentili's contact from an office at 98 Hsi Chiao Min Hsiang...
Directive No. 569673. As the demand for unskilled labor in factories and on farms has increased during the last two years, Peking has retreated steadily from any idea of expanding the regular school system. Said Minister of Education Chang Hsi-jo: "Mass industrialization comes before mass education...
Even closer to the midstream of popular U.S. taste was Long Islander William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), who once noted in hsi diary: "I must paint such pictures as speak at once to the spectator . . . that will be understood in an instant." In paintings such as Banjo Player (opposite), Mount proved he knew his audience. Infused today with the nostalgic glow of yesteryear, they are kept just this side of sentimentalism by Mount's careful craftsmanship and observant eye. In their quiet way, they look good for many years to come...
Chow with Chou. Chou En-lai gave a cocktail party which Peking radio described as "proceeding in a friendly atmosphere." Later that night, he and tired Dag Hammarskjold dined in private. Talks began next morning in the ornate Hsi Hwa (West Splendor) hall of Peking's Forbidden City. Hammarskjold and Chou, flanked by their advisers, sat on a damask sofa, interspersing their legal arguments with sips of jasmine-scented tea, served in eggshell porcelain cups...
Their leader is Lieut. General Peng Tso-hsi, a slight, near-bald man of 51, who commanded the Nationalist Twenty-Sixth Army until the Red victory, then crossed with what was left of his troops into Indo-China...