Word: chun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practicing 3½ hours every day and performing four or five times a week. The younger members, who are first apprenticed at seven or eight, must do their exercises in the morning and then study after lunch. For them especially, the current tour has been an eye opener. Chao Chun, 12, the youngest member on the tour and a star of the lion dance, was asked before he left Peking if he knew where Canada was. "Not exactly," he replied, "but I do know it's very hot there this time of year...
...SECRETARIES AND SUBORDINATES. I do not approve of having one's own wife working as office manager of her husband's work unit. In Lin Piao's place, Yeh Chun [Lin's wife] is the office manager. His subordinates have to go through her to consult with him on any question. [Yeh and the subordinates have since been purged.] To do any real work you have to rely on yourself: move your own hands, see with your own eyes, mark documents in your own handwriting. Do not rely on secretaries! Do not let secretaries have...
Paulucci, 54, an Italian immigrant's son, started in the food business helping his mother sell home-canned pasta in her living room. In 1947 he borrowed $2,500 and created Chun King, the purveyor of canned Chinese food. He sold out to tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds in 1966 for $63 million in cash, later started Jeno's Inc., a producer of frozen pizza and other foods. Last year Jeno's sales were $50 million. Customers apparently like the products better than Consumer Reports does; in the June issue it rated several types of Jeno...
...myself the results of the air attack. The son of the vice-director had been wounded. A physician, Liu Ty Tung, of the Traditional Medicine Department, received a severe concussion and suffered a broken car drum. A patient sitting near her was killed instantly. Chun Ty Mai, 13, daughter of a woman physician in the hospital, also suffered a concussion and had one big toe blown off. Her father had already died...
...rise may spell new power for the small nucleus of relatively youthful leftists in the Politburo. One of its key figures is Yao Wenyuan, who is rumored to be Chiang Ching's son-in-law and is Peking's new press and propaganda chief; another is Chang Chun-chiao, party boss of Shanghai, who recently has been working out of Peking as China's man in charge of relations with foreign Communists. That job was formerly handled by Kang Sheng, a leftist Politburo member who may have been one of the earliest casualties of the political infighting...