Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puzzle from which a good many pieces are missing." His staff of 60 pores over everything from the speeches of high party leaders to reports of steel shipments and Peking opera programs. The typical senior officer, who must spend four to eight hours a day reading through his In box, starts his morning with the night's output of the New China News Agency, 20,000 to 30,000 words containing the previous day's government announcements, speeches and accounts of ceremonies. Then he moves on to the Peking People's Daily, the theoretical journal Red Flag...
Counterattack. With thousands of workers pouring into Peking from the nay-saying cities, the capital was poised for trouble. Radio Moscow claimed that the situation threatened to paralyze Peking's factories and rail communications. Wall posters (see box) reported one incident in which anti-Mao mobs stormed the cabinet building and "bloody clashes ensued." Premier Chou En-lai addressed a group of railway men, urging that service be restored; he also complained that Railways Minister Lu Cheng-tsao had been held captive by the workers for five days...
...Discretion. Meanwhile, with a canny eye cocked on the box office, she carefully nurtured a public image that equated her offstage life with the scarlet ladies she portrayed. At various times, she gulled newspapers into gossiping about "affairs" with any notable that came to her mind: Gene Tunney, William S. Hart, Al Smith and the Prince of Wales. (If in fact she had any famous lovers, nobody ever discovered who they were.) When Billy Sunday preached against her sensuous dance of the seven veils in Salome, she went to see him and quickly won his friendship over an ice cream...
...Louis-born Marilyn Morheuser entered the Roman Catholic Sisters of Loretto. After 16 years as a nun, she left the order to become a civil rights worker in Milwaukee. "I was happy," she recalls of her convent life. "But it was like being in a box with windows in it. You can see things happening outside. You want to help, but you can't, because you're inside the box...
Marilyn Morheuser is not the only American Catholic nun to decide that the only way to live her faith is to jump out of the box. In recent years, the church in the U.S. has suffered a small but steady loss among its 181,400 sisters. In the Archdiocese of New York, for example, 47 nuns left their convents last year, twice as many as in 1965. Some church officials estimate that resignations from the nation's sisterhoods have more than doubled in the past five years. What particularly worries them is that many of the ex-sisters...