Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Hupei province, Lin has the middle-class background common to many Chinese Communist leaders. The son of a small textile-mill operator, he received a fair elementary education and, choosing a military career, enrolled at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy-where his headmaster was an officer named Chiang Kaishek. His rise was swift; he took command of an army corps at 22. Lin was a leader of the Long March of 1934-35, in which the Communist army escaped destruction in southern China at the hands of Chiang Kais-hek's Kuomintang forces by fighting...
...pretense of trying to effect a reconciliation with their Asian comrades. They have now brusquely read them out of the international brotherhood. "The Communist Party of China is no more," wrote Izvestia. "The Maoist rally is actually the first congress of a new organization which has nothing in common with the Communist Party of China or with international Communism...
Ashe will arrive at about noon for a small dinner and discussion with about 20 students in the Lowell Senior Common Room. At 2 p.m., Ashe will speak at an open meeting in the Junior Common Room...
Harvard was plagued yesterday by the late-game letdown which was so common during the Southern tour. The Crimson netted six goals before M.I.T. finally got a shot by goalie Kirby Wilcox in the second period, and was on top. 8-4 at halftime...
...meeting with somewhat the same feeling I had after listening to Columbia President Grayson Kirk when I covered the Columbia rebellion last spring. An administrator who is so far out of contact with his constituency has little recourse but to force in a confrontation. For there is little common ground on which to base negotiations. President Pusey's testimony on ROTC before SFAC represents the type of rigidity which breeds confrontation...