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...latest twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three of the Chairman's physicians charged that when the ailing Mao was sleeping in his sickroom, Chiang Ch'ing would yell at him, brandishing documents under his nose. Then she made her first attempt with an improbable blunt instrument. This was a high-wattage lamp that she cunningly placed on Mao's bedside table. Though "in dread of heat," he survived. Then Chiang Ch'ing, her Maocidal mania unabated, burst last September into her husband's sickroom. Taking advantage of the chief doctor...
...America's second largest city used more than "des, dems and dose" when he spoke. Daley gave a dull, technical, very formal speech and questions followed--mostly hostile ones,. Suddenly, the stiff, unnatural Richard Daley gave way to the mayor millions of Chicagoans worshipped. Malapropisms and Chicagoese returned--his blunt words chopped through the air. A student charged bossism. The answer to that was easy. "You either run the party or the party runs you," the mayor said...
Radical Faction. Hua pronounced China's domestic situation generally "excellent," but his message was a blunt declaration of war against both popular unrest in the provinces and the so-called radical faction in the Communist Party, which lost out in the struggle for power after Mao's death in September...
...been Deputy Defense Secretary in the Johnson Administration and a familiar figure in and around U.S. foreign policy for more than a decade. At the same time, Carter also announced that a close personal friend, Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, a bulky (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), blunt-speaking banker and college dropout from the mountains of north Georgia, would direct his Office of Management and Budget (TIME, Dec. 6). For all their sharp differences in background and style, Vance and Lance (reporters who had impatiently awaited the announcement cracked that the pair sounded like a vaudeville team) seemed...
...Rampton was a "moral coward" for staying his execution last month. As for the others who wanted to speak in his defense-the witnesses at the hearing included a right-to-life housewife and a vociferous representative of the Citizens Against Pornography and Other Crimes Committee -Gilmore was equally blunt: "All I have to say to all of them-the rabbis, the priests, the A.C.L.U.-I'd like them to butt out. It's my life and my death...