Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORGET the care of your children, 1 Peking tells Chinese women; there are now communal nurseries. Feel free at last-to dig ditches and build roads -and approach the status of ants. Such is the bleak present and the formidable future promised in Red China's amazing new revolution. See FOREIGN NEWS, The People's Communes...
Private life, too, is not to last for long. Some communes are already planning to tear down' the houses of their members and use the salvaged brick, tile and timber to build communal barracks. In Honan two-thirds of the province's 10 million children are now being cared for in communal nurseries, and in some of the older communes "people's mess halls" have already become, the Reds boast, "almost the only place one can eat." Instead of turning to his wife when his trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem...
...build prestige, the papers spend lavishly on such extracurricular flings as importing the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, financing deep-sea bathysphere explorations. To save their employees' face, publishers give out biannual bonuses amounting to some 40% of salaries, automatically move their best reporters into administrative jobs at around 35. Not only do the overstaffed papers hardly ever fire anyone, but, as a sort of national face-saving gesture, they yearly hire unnecessary help from Japan's crop of new college graduates...
...public has been completely ruined by the press, radio, television and the movies; they have been so educated to the star cult that even the smallest little provincial city will take opera only if it has a star. I see no desire of the public in the country to build opera from young companies." What about Santa Fe, which has recently formed a successful summer opera company? "Where," said Rudi Bing, "is Santa Fe?" In a rare, ruffled moment, he added: "Perhaps I am too much of a European...
ATOM-POWER LEAD in race to supply world market with reactors has gone to General Electric Co. In key competition, with seven atom experts called by World Bank to help judge, G.E. won contract to build 150,000-kw. boiling-water-type reactor for Italian government near Naples. G.E. will also build West Germany's first power reactor...