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Word: taipei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taipei to celebrate his 72nd birthday after an inspection trip of Quemoy, Nationalist China's President Chiang Kai-shek vetoed all hoopla because of recent floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...delegates to the annual regional conference of the World Health Organization in Formosa last week, a must on the agenda was a side trip to a cluster of laboratories in Taipei. The labs are the headquarters of a far-ranging, little-publicized U.S. Navy unit known as Namru-2 (for Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2). What the delegates saw of Namru-2's work was so impressive that they later passed a resolution to accept the unit's standing offer of emergency help in epidemics among Asia's civilian population. As most of the delegates well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medics for the Millions | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Reopen the Case. In Taipei, Formosa, Suspected Thief Lin Chao-chin protested his innocence until he was caught pilfering a pack of cigarettes from a policeman's desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Value Judgment. In Taipei, Formosa, Mrs. Kao Lai Chao-chi, who feeds 50 rats each night in her home charitably, explained: "Rats are no worse than many human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Career Man. In Taipei, Formosa, the China Post reported speculation as to why Dr. Shen Chang-huan had been appointed Ambassador to Spain: "Because the last two words of his name sound like Don Juan; because he knows how to dance the tango; because he was born in the year of the Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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