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...vastly inflated, and revised their 1959 production goals downward. But the price of truth proved too painful. Fortnight ago, during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Red takeover in China, Premier Chou En-lai complained: "The imperialists ridicule our adjusted 1959 plan as a 'big leap backward' . . . Obviously, it is a continued great leap forward on the basis of the exceptionally big leap forward [the year before]." Last week, quick to take a hint, Peking's trained-seal statisticians announced in advance the overfulfillment of 1959 targets...
...Urged finance ministers of International Monetary Fund nations, meeting in Washington, to share newly accumulated national wealth with economically backward countries...
...since we believe that the feeling for freedom, that respect for freedom, love of freedom, is instinctive in men, we do think that the systematized order that is observed in Russia is a step backward, not forward. Now, Mr. Khrushchev . . . is always saying that history is going to decide between us. I believe history, in the long run, is going to decide in favor of the free system...
Reaching for a smaller tool, the sculptor pares the head into an elongated, rectangular appendage, no larger than his thumbnail, perhaps one-twentieth the size of the body instead of nature's less than one-seventh. He pushes his own head backward and thrusts the piece forward, studying it with a frown. Then he pokes two tiny indentations to make the eyes. One or more such small maquettes, produced between breakfast and a 1 o'clock lunch, may prove the seed for another of the large reclining women or mother figures to which the mind of Henry Moore...
High and dry on the sun-blasted northeastern horn of Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept...