Word: taipei
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Last week, in his headquarters near Taipei, Dr. Hu Shih, 70, presided at a cocktail party in honor of new Academia fellows. Suddenly, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. His death severed one of the notable links between his present-day, divided nation and the hopeful, revolutionary years of a half-century ago when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. Like his country, Hu Shih's own family was split: one son is on the Communist mainland, another in the U.S. For his many friends, Dr. Hu Shih's epitaph could be taken from...
Died. Hu Shih, 70, onetime (1938-42) Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. and Nationalist China's most venerable scholar-statesman; of a heart attack; near Taipei (see THE WORLD...
...Nationalist island of Formosa last week, there was a march past of 11,000 troops while 160 jet fighters roared overhead. A dozen Nationalist frogmen swam ashore on the uninhabited Red Chinese island of Pinglangyu and planted Nationalist flags on the beach. In Taipei, Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek declared that conditions on the mainland resembled those of 1911, "when even the officers and men of the Manchu 'new army' were longing for the great day that was soon to dawn." With stubborn, visionary optimism, Chiang predicted large-scale uprisings soon in Red China, and promised that he would...
...Johnson on his six-nation tour of Asia as the personal emissary of President John F. Kennedy. Earlier in the week, Johnson had had his problems in the Philippines, where President Carlos Garcia made no secret of his dismay at the soft stand of the U.S. in Laos. In Taipei, Johnson reassured Chiang Kai-shek that the U.S. has no intention of recognizing Red China, intends to stand faithfully behind its commitment to defend Formosa...
Born. To Chiang Hsiao-wen, 25, Chiang Kai-shek's eldest grandson who is in the export-import business in Taipei, and Nancy Chiang, 22, granddaughter of onetime Gimo comrade in arms: their first child, a daughter, and first great-grandchild of 73-year-old Chiang; in Taipei...