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...press was pushing the revolutionary word on other fronts. Article after article claimed that a miraculous upsurge in industrial and agricultural production had been brought about by jettisoning all capitalist notions of expertise and turning instead to Mao-think. The New China News Agency reported that "China reaped the biggest grain crop in its history this year." (Western experts calculate a shortfall of 5,000,000 tons in the Chinese harvest for 1966.) The Agency also cited a "new leap forward" in iron and steel output as a result of "a mass movement to storm the technical citadels...
Exactly-only the Russian version. The Novosti Press Agency, a nominally nongovernmental news service, decided that the best way to win American readers is to model a new magazine after the U.S. publication with the biggest circulation. So this month the agency brought out Sputnik, which consists of articles culled, condensed, and translated from the rest of the Russian press. Novosti has sent 12,000 copies of the first issue to the U.S., and hopes eventually to sell 50,000 at 500 a copy...
...form that has won him two Wimbledon titles, four Australian championships, a U.S. and a French championship in the last four years, Emerson swept both of his singles matches in straight sets-polishing off Mukherjea in 66 min., Krishnan in 95 min. Fred Stolle's "big" serve, the biggest in the amateur game, did the rest. Aceing Krishnan twelve times and Mukherjea 20 times, Stolle won the other two singles matches to give the Davis Cup to Australia for the 21st time and the 14th in the last 17 years...
...remarkable growth matched Jonsson's financial know-how with his own expertise in electrical engineering. Haggerty will stay on as chief executive officer, but will be replaced as president by Mark Shepherd Jr., 43, executive vice president since 1961. As for Jonsson, Texas Instrument's biggest stockholder, he will keep busy in retirement as mayor of Dallas, a job he has held for almost three years...
...considerably faster rate than the Jewish community. The paper will no doubt maintain its power because it has proved to be as important to Germany as it has been to the Jewish community. "We Germans need a watchdog for our democracy," says Axel Springer, the nation's biggest press lord. "That is exactly what the Jewish Weekly...