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Armed with little more than the name lists of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee elected in 1945 and 1956-58 (some 200 men), one could construct the tables of organization of virtually all important organizations in China today--principally the CCP, the government bureaucracy, the army, and the ubiquitous "mass" (or "people's") organizations. There were only two major chinks in the armor of leadership solidarity from the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 to early 1966. The first of these was the purge in 1955 of Kao Kang, the former political boss...
...rise apartment buildings have straddled the approaches to the George Washington Bridge since 1963. Chicago's 41-story Prudential Building rose over the Illinois Central tracks just east of Michigan Avenue nearly twelve years ago, and only last month, the last legal obstacles were removed from plans to construct $1 billion worth of apartments and office buildings over 188 acres of Illinois Central track and switching yard near Chicago's lakefront...
What he seems to have done, however, is construct an informal, ad hoc framework to get things done...
Concerted Attack. The cooperative-ministry approach is also suited to situations in which the church needs to build up facilities from scratch. At Columbia, Md., for example, where nine "planned villages" are under construction, a dozen Protestant denominations have pledged more than $2,000,000 to construct campuslike, multichapeled spiritual centers in each. While the churches will conduct separate services, they plan to share ownership of the centers, maintain common administrative and teaching staffs, libraries and other community facilities...
...exasperating. The familiar elements are there: the pointless plot, the Twain tone of Midwest innocence and irony, the fey and the freak who get caught up in the drama. Morris has used them all before, often to great comic effect. This time he has barely bothered to construct more than the outline of a story, leaning on the kitschy existential slogan: "Things just happen. No reason, no reason, just a happening...