17. American Ambassador Walter P. McConaughy returns after a three-month home vacation.
18. Vice President-Premier C. K. Yen leaves for New York to attend the 25th founding anniversary of the United Nations.
19. Irving Feist, president of the U.S. Boy Scouts, arrives for a two-day visit.
Roy Ambrose McNeill, Jamaica's minister of interior affairs, arrives for a six-day visit.
A three-member fishing study mission from Korea arrives for a three-week visit.
Phiich Tam Chan, chairman of the World Buddhist Union, arrives for a three-day visit.
20. Yoshihiko Tsuchiya, deputy director of the Japanese Self-Defense Agency, arrives for a six-day visit.
Andres V. Castillo, general manager of the Philippine Metropolitan Bank, arrives for a week's visit.
24. Pierre Efomi, first ambassador of the Congo (Kinshasa) to China, arrives to assume office.
Thomas Showsmith, chief of the China Section of the U.S. State Department, arrives for a 10-day visit.
British parliamentarians Sir John Rodgers and Sir Tufton Beamish leave after a 10-day visit.
25. Taiwan marks the 25th anniversary of its restoration to China.
Lt. Gen. Luis Diez-Algeria, Spain's civil defense commander, arrives for a week's visit.
Huang Po-tu, a national policy adviser to the President, dies in Taipei.
Monsignor Luigi Accogli, outgoing Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to China, leaves for the Vatican.
26. Commodore D. E. Papa, commander-in-chief of the Philippine Navy, arrives for a six-day visit.
A 22-member mission of the Japanese-Chinese Friendship Association of Nagoya arrives for a week's visit.
27. Jorge Cervantes Pinzon, new charge d'affaires of the Colombian Embassy, arrives to assume office.
28. Samuel Yorty, mayor of Los Angeles, arrives for a week's goodwill visit.
Leo V. Newman, personal representative of Governor Jack Williams of Arizona, arrives for a four-day visit.
29. Sam Eppelle, director of information of Nigeria, arrives for a 10-day visit.
30. M. L. Sandhi, a member of the House of the People of India, arrives for a week's visit.
The 25th Taiwan Provincial Athletic Meet is opened at Tainan.
31. Vice Adm. N. C. Johnson, commander of the Amphibious Forces Command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, arrives for a brief visit.
November 1. Robert C. Seamans Jr., secretary of the U.S. Air Force, arrives for a brief visit.
5. Adm. John S. McCain Jr., commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Forces, arrives for a two-day visit.
A group of 110 speakers of Japanese prefectural and municipal councils arrives for a three-day visit.
6. China severs diplomatic ties with Italy.
9. U.S. Representatives Otto E. Passman and Edwin W. Edwards arrive for a two-day visit.
The third Asian Regional Conference on Educational and Vocational Guidance is opened in Taipei.
Ambassador to Italy Hsu Shao-chang returns from Rome.
10. The fifth General Conference of the East Asian Insurance Congress is opened in Taipei.
11. Herbert R. Rainwater, commander of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars, arrives for a three-day visit.
12. The nation observes the 105th birthday of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the Republic.
The Asian Regional Association for Educational and Vocational Assistance is inaugurated in Taipei.
Heihachiro Otake, vice chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, arrives for a six-day visit.
13. Dr. Carl McIntire, president of the International Council of Christian Churches, arrives for a three-day visit.
Shih Shang-kuan, president of the Judges' Training Institute, dies in Taipei.
14. U.S. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe arrives for a two-day visit.