Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story might have been brushed aside as another propaganda tidbit, but the official Nationalist Central News Agency quickly verified it. What's more, claimed Taipei, the guerrillas tied up 100,000 Communist troops for three months, inflicted 700 casualties, shot down a Red reconnaissance plane, and engaged in a widespread campaign of sabotage...
...retreat in suburban Taipei, the Republic of China's venerable President Chiang Kai-shek passed his 75th birthday in quiet seclusion. The still spry Gimo requested that there be no public celebrations, but 30,000 Formosans jammed into the Presidential Mansion grounds to sign traditional congratulatory scrolls; across the island there were youth rallies, mass choral concerts and, with an eye to the Reds across the strait, mass bayonet exercises. In lieu of birthday cake, all the guests at restaurants, public luncheons and dinner parties were served long, flat noodles, a Chinese symbol of longevity...
...M.I.T. and just ahead of Caltech as the first-choice college of National Merit scholars. The graduate business school's students are 25% Ivy Leaguers. The university is getting so international-minded that it now has 503 students at branch campuses in Florence, Stuttgart, Tours, Tokyo and Taipei...
...Admiral Alan G. Kirk returned to duty in Asia as U.S. Ambassador to Nationalist China. A World War II hero who led invasion fleets against Sicily and Normandy, Kirk also proved himself an able diplomat as Ambassador to Moscow from 1949 to 1952. His selection for the post in Taipei ended a long search for a man who was respected by Administration officials, by outspoken supporters of Chiang Kaishek, and by Chiang himself...
...return to their homeland only 90 miles away across the Formosa Strait. To achieve this goal, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has kept his powerful army and air force in tiptop shape, and devoured intelligence reports from the mainland. Last week, in a speech celebrating Youth Day, in bustling, prosperous Taipei, he said: "The situation both at home and abroad is such that we can no longer passively wait and see if something will happen. The holy expedition from Formosa to save our people and punish the traitors may come at any time...