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Ever since Karl Marx predicted that the Revolution would break out in industrially advanced Western Europe, while it actually came in backward, agricultural Russia, such contradictions have haunted Communism. Today, according to Marxist theory, capitalism should be in its death throes, the working class in utter misery, and the former colonial peoples well on the road to Communism. Instead, capitalism is thriving, Western workers are going middleclass, and the ex-colonies tend toward Socialism but hardly toward Communism. Nikita Khrushchev favors changing the theory to fit these facts more closely; he is, as Peking accurately charges, a revisionist...
...supported because he considered him a strong Soviet ally who would fight both Western and Japanese threats to Russian power. Decimated by Chiang, the ragged Chinese Communists survived in the caves of Yenan and eventually went on to conquer China, despite Stalin's warning that they were backward and not ready for revolution. After the war, Stalin sent Mao a Russian handbook of partisan strategy against the Nazis; Mao passed it to an aide who snorted: "If we had this as our textbook we would have been annihilated ten years...
...improve his balance and body control, was rated one of the ten best trampoline men in the country. One day last week, he was tuning up for the U.S.-Russian track meet in Moscow late this month by performing a complicated trampoline maneuver called a "flifis": a double backward somersault with a twist. Something went wrong. He seemed to lose control in midair, fell 14 ft. head-first and sprawled motionless on the trampoline. Paralyzed from the neck down, he was rushed to a hospital, where doctors found a dislocated cervical vertebra-in layman's language, a broken neck...
...down!" screamed the BBC announcer. "Cooper has downed him! Oh, a beautiful punch there!" The "beautiful punch" was a sucker left hook; its chances of landing must have been 1,000 to 1. But land it did, flush on Clay's jutting jaw. Eyes glazed, Clay tumbled backward onto the ropes. The referee began counting, and the crowd hoarsely took up the chant: "One, two, three, four, five"-and then the bell...
...would do both." Hoping to stimulate that will, the Commerce Department is pressing Congress to set up a Civilian Industrial Technological Program that would establish closer links between business and universities, provide tax write-offs for private research and create other special incentives for probing into such technically backward industries as textiles, construction, coal and metal working...