Word: aug
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...Aug. 18 Mao and Lin staged a huge rally in Peking to celebrate the purge and the campaign of the Red Guards. Accounts of the rally in Chinese newspapers and on radio observed Communist protocol by including a list of the Party hierarchy from Mao, Lin, and Chou on down. A severe shake-up had obviously occurred. T'ao had risen to number four and Ch'en to number five in the Politburo. Liu Shao-ch'i, President of the Chinese People's Republic and thus head of the government apparatus, had dropped to eighth. Liu is nearly...
...pleased to see my wife Roni pictured in full-page color in TIME. The "image of the foetus" on the TV screen has since developed into a beautiful baby girl, named Stacey Wynn, born Aug. 20 in Pittsburgh. We are proud to be the only ones in our neighborhood to have a baby album starting off with a picture at age minus two months...
...would like to draw the attention of your readers to a poll that has not been reported so far as I know. Rev. Daniel A. Poling, of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains and chairman of the board of Christian Herald magazine, announced on Aug. 31 that a nationwide poll, responded to by 30,000 American Protestant clergymen, showed that 71.4% were opposed to the admission of Red China to the United Nations or granting it American diplomatic recognition. The same poll showed that 93.7% of American Protestant clergymen were opposed to the expulsion of Nationalist China from the United...
...work on the Sabbath for the sake of national security and that electricity may be used on holy days because it is not the same as the fire whose kindling on the Sabbath was forbidden by Exodus. England's newly elected Orthodox Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits (TIME, Aug. 26) recently got around the traditional Orthodox opposition to birth control by ruling that the Biblical injunction, "Be fruitful and multiply," was addressed to men only-and that women are therefore free to use contraceptive devices to limit births...
Something Alive. The unusual managerial approach has paid off. With five plants in Japan, a joint venture in Thailand, and subsidiaries in seven foreign countries, Honda reported $331.6 million in sales for the year ending Aug. 31, up $15.4 million from fiscal '65. Net profits are up $3,500,000 for the same period. In addition to cycles and cars, Honda produces a profitable range of products including small trucks, multipurpose engines, portable generators, power tillers, outboard motors and lawn mowers. Honda's plans for the future include a full range of automobiles and an airplane engine...