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...when the Red Guards went haywire. One exception is Shanghai, which is still in the hands of the educated urban activists who dominated the party before the Cultural Revolution. Of the provincial bosses, 18 are old-line generals, five vintage bureaucrats, two veterans of service in the state security apparatus. Rural, poorly educated, untraveled and just plain old-their average age is 62-they are hardly the sort of men to heed Mao's call to "take in the fresh." In fact, a dominant theme of the 25,000-word anniversary editorial that appeared in the Peking press last...
Otherwise, the descent seemed to be continuing normally. "After aerodynamic braking in the atmosphere," reported Tass, "the parachute system was put into action and, before landing, the soft-landing engines were fired. The flight of the descending apparatus ended in a smooth landing in the preset area." These operations, however, were automatic; they did not require cooperation from the crew. Western experts speculated that whatever went wrong with Soyuz 11 occurred either during or soon after the firing of its retrorocket...
...long, most of the disrupters were spending their dinner hours defending the action to students who asked how anyone could excuse such a vicious attack on free speech at Harvard. Three years of explanation that the University was not neutral, that it was inextricably tied to the war-making apparatus of the monster society it lived in, that it could not honestly pose as the defender of liberal values-all seemed wiped out. More students than ever seemed willing to believe that Harvard could be a sanctuary, a safe liberal harbor, unaffected by the storms of the dirty world outside...
...admire her truly regal cheek," said the New Statesman article, questioning whether Britons ought to continue to maintain "the clutch of palaces, the powdered footmen, the racing stables and polo ponies, the fleets of luxury cars, the squadrons of aircraft and helicopters, the yachts, the elaborate apparatus of consumption at its most conspicuous level...
...hear that I was an athlete in any sense, but I really was a gymnastics champion in high school, on the side horse, which some people confuse with the hobby horse in an attempt to get a cheap laugh. [Cheap laughter.] It is a very difficult piece of athletic apparatus, and I worked it simply because it was the only piece of apparatus that our team could afford. And if you ever saw me on the side horse, you'd come to scoff but remain to pray. [Laughter.] . . . Jesse, I have to run. I'm very busy...