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...base in northwest China and promptly captured the heart of the young guerrilla leader Mao Tse-tung. Mao's live-in arrangement with her-which apparently ended a few years before his death in 1976 -was tolerated by his comrades on the condition that he keep his new commonlaw wife away from politics. But when Mao launched China on the chaotic Cultural Revolution in the mid-'60s, Jiang Qing rose to become the shrill tyrant of the movement. "Sex," she once confided to American Sinologist Roxane Witke, "is engaging in the first rounds. What sustains interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Trying the Gang of Four | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

Near Clarksdale. Miss., a colored sharecropper named James Wiggins and his commonlaw wife. Ethel Davis, owed $175 to their white boss, Joseph Shelley Decker, who was afraid they might decamp without paying. What this situation led to was described last week by Clarksdale's Sheriff H. H. Dogan after he had been summoned to the 200-acre Decker farm by Sharecropper Wiggins. Said Sheriff Dogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debt Collection | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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