Word: chen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High party officials began to fall from power: Peking Party Boss Peng Chen; the capital's Deputy Mayor Wu Han; Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching; Culture Minister Lu Ting-yi. Most of the party purge victims were latecomers to Maoism (only Lo and Lu were on the Long March...
...army as porters and scouts. Today's Red Guards are high school and university students, often clad in military-type khaki trousers and belted jackets, and always wearing a red arm band. They seemed to be under the command of Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, now a leader of the Cultural Revolution. Chen's order: "You must temper yourselves by going among the masses and getting yourselves covered over and over again with muck...
...Guards began carrying out Chen's version of Mao's "thinking" early last week by posting along Peking's major streets a "Declaration of War on the Old World." The Guards' vow: "To mercilessly destroy every hotbed of revisionism." Down the streets they rampaged, roughing up Chinese in foreign dress, ordering shopkeepers to stop selling books except those that reflect Mao's thinking and to rid themselves of imported articles or luxury items. In the place of cosmetics, ordinary floor-scrubbing soap was put on sale for facial care. Also on the taboo list: goldfish...
Next day, to celebrate the fall of the Bastille in 1789, the tricolor blossomed over Paris, and French emissaries around the world celebrated with champagne receptions. To the French Ambassador's garden party in Peking came Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Peking had already accused the Russians of collusion with Washington for a settlement in Europe that would free U.S. troops now based on the Continent to fight in Asia. For the French, Chen Yi had a toast of his own. Said he: "I am deeply convinced that so long as all the peace-loving countries and peoples...
Science writers outdid themselves reporting that all physics was in a state of chaos and shock. But the real shock came almost a decade ago when Professors Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton challenged the concept of "parity" and the idea of symmetry in matter and antimatter for so-called "weak" forces in nature. What was needed was an experiment to check out possible violations of physical symmetry in stronger forces...